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Preschool Education: A Foundation for Lifelong Well-Being

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Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Foundation: initiation; creation; origination.

Well-being: Positive-trajectory; Life-quality; Prosperity; Mental-health

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Preschool: Institutional educational establishment or formal learning space offering early childhood education to children before they begin compulsory education at primary school. For the purposes of this entry, preschool is used a term for children between 3 and 5 years of age and can be interchanged with other terms such as nursery school, pre-primary school, playschool, kindergarten, or Pre-K (different nomenclature used in literature). References to findings for learning outcomes of children between 0 and 3 years of age through structured day care/early childhood intervention are passing in nature and excluded from inference or discussion.

Cognitive Skills: (1) assessed I.Q.; (2) early language (literacy as witnessed by receptive and expressive vocabulary); (3) achievement (as represented by skills in reading and mathematics).

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  1. Silver Oaks International Education Services-UAE, Silver Oaks Schools & College-Pakistan, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

    Hassan Sattar

  2. Graduate Program in Sustainability Science – Global Leadership Initiative, Department of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Sadaf Taimur

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    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

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Sattar, H., Taimur, S. (2019). Preschool Education: A Foundation for Lifelong Well-Being. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Quality Education. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69902-8_66-1

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