BIOGRAPHY
Amer Hasan studied Economics with the Education Global Practice of the World Bank. He has been a Task Team Leader for a project that had the goal of extending the number of people who access education among children in the rural areas. He now focuses majorly on Indonesia and China in evaluating the long-term effects of expanding Early Childhood Education. Amer Hassan holds a Ph.D. and Masters in Public Policy from the University of Chicago as well as a Bachelor of Arts in History from Yale University.
He has done a lot with his experience in making sure that young children are economically supported through early childhood education and writings some projects over the same. Amer Hassan wrote about Early Childhood Education in his effort to make a trajectory of development for poor children. Indonesia began to emerge into middle-income status yet continued poverty, and stark inequalities continued to affect young children’s development (Hasan et al, 34). It made him write about factors that influence their academic development such as all aspects of health, parenting practices including feeding patterns. Besides, his book (Early Childhood Education and Development in Poor Villages of Indonesia: Strong Foundations, Later Success) offers a broad range of data on some aspects collected with international perspectives. Amer Hassan also carried out questionnaires on parents, and this gives the most accurate information.
The data reported in his book is based on a sample of about 6,000 Indonesian children living in around 310 poor villages, including two age cohorts of between 1 and four years old when he first collected data on their development in the year 2009. Initially, the project focused only on support service provision. In the latter days, it entailed the support of the development of national standards, building national and district ability to accommodate the system of ECED quality assurance, efforts that are still in process. He, therefore, improves the status of young children both in local and international countries with adequate knowledge for future survival and development.
Besides, he provides a summary of policy options to improve the Early Childhood Education. On the other hand, and supported this by providing data on essential interventions. Amer Hassan also provides responses to families and pregnancies. Most of his works are credited to have helped in making people accept their situations and circumstances in life. I further support his work because the results he presented in this book are very significant for other researchers in ECD, policy and lawmakers and even practitioners within and across the border of his study area for more development and program evaluation. Professional together with advocates for quality early childhood services are the core beneficiaries of his project in his book. (Early Childhood Education and Development in Indonesia: An Assessment of Policies)
However, Amer Hassan confirms that the milestones in the policy have taken place in progress such that it enables development of the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs). Indonesia had not received much audience with the developments in ECD. His choice for the country is justified because the nation had had little development as far as children education is concerned. Starting the type of education early bore fruits for the people because more students were able go through the school system. The aspect is encouraging to the policy makers because they are able to build their realities across the nations and see aspects of common interest. ECD helps in nurturing the psychological, cognitive and physical development (Denboba et al, 12).
Amer Hassan together with other authors have done substantial writings, and illustrations and some of them are entirely based on ways of ensuring that the early childhood education is successful, economical and sustainable. Some of the books include:
Early Childhood Education and Development in Poor Villages of Indonesia: Strong Foundations, Later Success.
Hasan, Amer, Marilou Hyson, and Mae Chu Chang. "Strong Foundations, Later Success."
Filmer, Deon, Amer Hasan, and Lant Pritchett. "A millennium learning goal: Measuring real progress in education." Center for Global Development Working Paper 97 (2006).
Work cited.
Denboba, Amina, Amer Hasan, and Quentin Wodon, eds. Early Childhood Education and Development in Indonesia: An Assessment of Policies Using SABER. World Bank Publications, 2015.
Hasan, Amer, Marilou Hyson, and Mae Chu Chang. Early Childhood Education and Development in Poor Villages of Indonesia: Strong Foundations, Later Success. World Bank Publications, 2013.
