“Khalifa Award” concludes the deadline for accepting the candidates’ applications.
Announcing the winners of the Khalifa International Award for Early Learning next May.
Amal Al-Afifi: The field of the Khalifa International Award for Early Learning is presented for the first time in the world.
Abu Dhabi: Thursday, March 2, 2023
The General Secretariat of the Khalifa Award for Education announced the closing of the deadline for receiving the participants’ applications for the current session in the field of the Khalifa International Award for Early Learning, which began receiving applications last September. The specialized screening committees began the process of sorting international applications, as of yesterday, in preparation for the arbitration process. The arbitration process is carried out with the utmost objectivity and transparency through the awarding committee, which consists of several of the most prominent early education experts in the world. The awarding committee of the Khalifa International Award for Early Education is chaired by Professor Stephen Barnett, founder, and co-director of the “National Institute for Early Education” and a member of the Institute’s Board of Governors, and Professor of Education at Rutgers University. The committee further includes: Professor Jana Fleming, Director of Early Childhood Development at the Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation, Professor Iram Siraj, winner of the prestigious Order of the British Empire (OBE), Professor of Child Development and Education at Oxford University, professor Nirmala Rao Serena H. Yang Professor of Early Childhood Development and Education, head Professor of Child Development and Education, University of Hong Kong, and Ms. Fatima Ahmed Abdullah Al Bastaki, Director and scale manager of the Expansion Project in Teaching the Chinese Language in the United Arab Emirates at the Emirates Foundation for School Education. The committee will be announcing the winners next May.
Amal Al-Afifi, Secretary-General of the Khalifa Award for Education, affirmed that there is a great demand from all over the world to participate in this field, which the award presented for the first time in the world. This particular field aims to cover and enhance the social, physical, mental, intellectual, creative, psychological, cognitive and emotional aspects of the various early education and childhood years. Al- Afifi highlighted that this field enriches innovative education programs distinguished by research, studies, programs, curricula, methodologies and advanced teaching methods in the field of early education, and motivating teachers, “creators of change” through best practices and innovation in the field of early education, as well as activating and encouraging the role of specialized centers, institutions and educational companies. Furthermore, it introduces the most successful Individual experiences in the field of early education, benefiting from the best studies and the most successful educational programs, methodologies, and practices in early childhood, and stimulating their application in educational institutions within the country.
Al-Afifi explained that the field of the Khalifa International Award for Early Learning introduced two categories: the category of Best research and studies, and the category of Best Programs, curricula, teaching methodologies and practices.