Explore:
Inequities in early childhood education and care (ECEC), formal education and youth training.
Test:
Novel solutions to known problems, collaborating with stakeholders.
Create:
Knowledge mobilization tools, including evidence-informed policy.
We draw on multidisciplinary insights from many fields, including economics, applied psychology and human development, and political science. We work with researchers across Canada and abroad to answer questions, develop interventions and mobilize information.
Featured Insight…
Both Me and My Daughter Would Cry Sometimes: Parents’ and Children’s Experiences with Home Education During the Early and Later COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented disruptions to children’s education across the globe, including abrupt transitions from in-person learning to learning from home. The current study investigates patterns of change in the educational challenges that 453...
Quantitative Analysis and Methods
Social status hand-me-downs
Canada is known as one of the most socially mobile nations in the world. But our reports finds that gender, class, & parentage can still have strong influence on income growth.
Providing more flexible work options for women
Flexible work helps women achieve a more sustainable work-life balance, but they have less access to those options than men. Could the pandemic provide opportunities for a widespread shift?
Parental Education and Postsecondary Attainment
What is the link between a parent’s educational attainments and their children’s future success?
Intervention Creation and Testing
Navigating Technology in the classroom
A scoping review of technology use during peer collaboration in early educational settings. Early educational settings such as early childhood education and care and kindergarten (i.e. formal schooling) are important contexts to foster children’s peer collaboration, an important skill for the 21st century.
Designing Effective Policy Responses
What Do Parents Want In Terms Of Early Childhood Education And Care?
In the development of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy, it is important to understand parents’ decision-making in terms of both preferences and pragmatic constraints.
Understanding 21st century skills needed in response to Industry 4.0
International policy agendas are increasingly focusing on the 21st century skills needed by future workers (otherwise called soft skills, digital skills or survival skills). This paper seeks to understand the structure of academic knowledge in this area, through is a bibliometric analysis of 2662 articles published by 6579 authors in the last twenty years.
Who gets to define 21st century skills?
Over the last two decades, consensus around what abilities people need to thrive in the global economy has coalesced around a set of core skills: creativity, collaboration, problem solving, ICT literacy, coding, and so on.
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