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Celebrating Women’s Month: Honouring the Bedrock of ECD
The year was 1956, and on 9 August, more than 20 000-strong women matched to the union buildings, resisting pass laws which were being enforced by the then apartheid government.

The Code In The Crib: How Neuroscience, Epigenetics, And Play Are Rewriting A Nation’s Future
Children do not arrive at the ECD center as blank slates. They arrive carrying their homes, their streets, their languages, their hunger, their songs, and their stories. Sociology teaches us that learning is not an isolated, cognitive act. It is a social act, shaped by class, culture, language, poverty, family structure, and community (Vygotsky, 1978).

From Sidewalk To Classroom: Translating Sociological Knowledge Into Context-Relevant Pedagogies For Early Childhood Development
Children do not arrive at the ECD center as blank slates. They arrive carrying their homes, their streets, their languages, their hunger, their songs, and their stories. Sociology teaches us that learning is not an isolated, cognitive act. It is a social act, shaped by class, culture, language, poverty, family structure, and community (Vygotsky, 1978).
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