Child Development In Africa Views From Inside

Author : Robert Serpell,Kofi Marfo
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781119039921

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Child Development in Africa by Robert Serpell,Kofi Marfo Pdf

In this volume, African scholars engaged in research on the continent reflect on their recent and ongoing empirical studies. They discuss the strengths and limitations of research methods, theories, and interventions designed outside Africa to spur innovative research on the continent. And they explore how insights from African philosophical, theoretical, and empirical work can be combined with exogenous forms of knowledge to generate understanding of the processes of African children's development in ways that are responsive to local contexts and meaningful for indigenous stakeholders. A new field of African child development research is emerging in African societies, focusing on children as valued and vulnerable members of society and potential civic leaders of the future. Systematic inquiries are now designed to enhance our understanding of how African children think, to discover effective ways of communicating with them, and to inform successful strategies of promoting their health, education, and preparation for adult responsibilities in society. This is the 146th volume in this Jossey-Bass series New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. Its mission is to provide scientific and scholarly presentations on cutting edge issues and concepts in this subject area. Each volume focuses on a specific new direction or research topic and is edited by experts from that field.

Author : Robert Serpell,Kofi Marfo
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781119039945

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Child Development in Africa: Views From Inside by Robert Serpell,Kofi Marfo Pdf

In this volume, African scholars engaged in research on the continent reflect on their recent and ongoing empirical studies. They discuss the strengths and limitations of research methods, theories, and interventions designed outside Africa to spur innovative research on the continent. And they explore how insights from African philosophical, theoretical, and empirical work can be combined with exogenous forms of knowledge to generate understanding of the processes of African children’s development in ways that are responsive to local contexts and meaningful for indigenous stakeholders. A new field of African child development research is emerging in African societies, focusing on children as valued and vulnerable members of society and potential civic leaders of the future. Systematic inquiries are now designed to enhance our understanding of how African children think, to discover effective ways of communicating with them, and to inform successful strategies of promoting their health, education, and preparation for adult responsibilities in society. This is the 146th volume in this Jossey-Bass series New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. Its mission is to provide scientific and scholarly presentations on cutting edge issues and concepts in this subject area. Each volume focuses on a specific new direction or research topic and is edited by experts from that field.

Author : Marito H. Garcia,Alan Pence,Judith Evans
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821368877

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Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge by Marito H. Garcia,Alan Pence,Judith Evans Pdf

Early childhood, from birth through school entry, was largely invisible worldwide as a policy concern for much of the twentieth century. Children, in the eyes of most countries, were 'appendages' of their parents or simply embedded in the larger family structure. The child did not emerge as a separate social entity until school age (typically six or seven). 'Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge: Early Childhood Care and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa' focuses on the 130 million children south of the Sahel in this 0-6 age group. This book, the first of its kind, presents a balanced collection of articles written by African and non-African authors ranging from field practitioners to academicians and from members of government organizations to those of nongovernmental and local organizations. 'Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge' compiles the latest data and viewpoints on the state of Sub-Saharan Africa's children. Topics covered include the rationale for investing in young children, policy trends in early childhood development (ECD), historical perspectives of ECD in Sub-Saharan Africa including indigenous approaches, new threats from HIV/AIDS, and the importance of fathers in children's lives. The book also addresses policy development and ECD implementation issues; presents the ECD programming experience in several countries, highlighting best practices and challenges; and evaluates the impact of ECD programs in a number of countries.

Author : Anne-Trine Kjørholt,Helen Penn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319913193

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Early Childhood and Development Work by Anne-Trine Kjørholt,Helen Penn Pdf

This edited volume provides a critical account of the theories and policies that have informed work in the field of early childhood and explores how they have operated in practice. Underpinning the theoretical debates are the familiar tensions between global norms and local contexts; increasing inequality alongside economic progress, and the increasing prominence of business and the private sector in delivering aid programs. The authors offer a profound critique on an increasingly important topic and discuss alternative models of policy and practice.

Author : Nat J. Colletta,Jayshree Balachander,Xiaoyan Liang
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821336770

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The Condition of Young Children in Sub-Saharan Africa by Nat J. Colletta,Jayshree Balachander,Xiaoyan Liang Pdf

Reviews the World Bank's experience in industrial restructuring in 46 countries during the past 14 years. The study finds that for most completed public enterprise restructuring operations, sustainability of benefits was a large problem, mainly because of fragile sector reforms and inadequate governance and management. Those completed for the private sector experienced poor outcomes from inadequate attention to country economic conditions and policy distortions. To overcome such problems, the study recommends that future restructuring operations be designed and implemented to have an impact at the firm level.

Author : Alan R. Pence,A. Bame Nsamenang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Child development
ISBN : 9061951097

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A Case for Early Childhood Development in Sub-Saharan Africa by Alan R. Pence,A. Bame Nsamenang Pdf

Author : Kathy Jackson,Okechukwu C. Abosi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015077681842

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South of the Desert by Kathy Jackson,Okechukwu C. Abosi Pdf

This book offers a new approach to child development for teachers and draws on research in psychology, health, sociology, anthropology, history and education to provide a wide- ranging description of influences on child development in African countries. Where possible, research by African investigators is reported. Research from Western industrialised countries is presented briefly only where there are gaps in the literature from Africa.

Author : Hasina Banu Ebrahim,Auma Okwany,Oumar Barry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351185134

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Early Childhood Care and Education at the Margins by Hasina Banu Ebrahim,Auma Okwany,Oumar Barry Pdf

The importance of early childhood care and education (ECCE) in the lives of very young children is gaining increasing attention around the globe and yet there is a persistent lack of diverse knowledge perspectives on this critical phase. This stems from dominant Eurocentric framings of early childhood research, and related theories. Early Childhood Care and Education at the Margins provides contextual accounts of ECCE in Africa in order to build multiple perspectives and to promote responsive thought and actions. The book is an entry point to knowledge production for birth to three in Africa and responds to the call for the field to be in dialogue with different perspectives that attempt to map concepts, debates and contemporary concerns. In this book, a group of African authors, representing both Anglophone and Francophone Africa, provide insider's perspectives on a wide range of geographic, cultural and thematic positions. In so doing, they show the breadth and depth of ideas on which the ECCE field draws. The chapters in the volume highlight a range of topics including poverty, early socialisation, local care practices, gendered roles, and service provision. They open up important points of departure for thinking about ECCE policy, practice, theory and research. The book presents African perspectives in a globalising world. It is therefore suitable for an international readership. It includes cross-cultural comparisons as well as critiques of dominant discourses which will be of particular interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students active in the field of ECCE, childhood studies, cultural studies and comparative education.

Author : Amy Jo Reinhold
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821339680

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Review of Early Childhood Policy and Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa by Amy Jo Reinhold Pdf

The collaborative efforts of ColombiaA's Department of National Planning (DNP) and the World Bank has produced the National Evaluation System of Public Sector Performance (SYNERGY). Put in place by the Special Division for Evaluation in DNP, this system has been designed and implemented to change the public sector from an inward-looking, process-oriented body (which sometimes restrains economic and social progress) into a more dynamic, results-oriented partner of the community and private sector in development. This report explores the critical factors in making SYNERGY a successful evaluation system. Such factors include ways of making it an effective management tool, promoting civil society participation by focusing on results for people and leveraging on their energy and resource, defining a constructive learning process for implementation, and providing an enabling environment for a results-oriented public sector.

Author : Robert A. Levine,Sarah Levine,Suzanne Dixon,Amy Richman,P. Herbert Leiderman,Constance H. Keefer,T. Berry Brazelton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994-08-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521331714

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Child Care and Culture by Robert A. Levine,Sarah Levine,Suzanne Dixon,Amy Richman,P. Herbert Leiderman,Constance H. Keefer,T. Berry Brazelton Pdf

Child Care and Culture examines parenthood, infancy, and early childhood in an African community, revealing patterns unanticipated by current theories of child development and raising provocative questions about the concept of "normal" child care. Comparing the Gusii people of Kenya with the American white middle class, the authors show how divergent cultural priorities create differing conditions for early childhood development. Combining the perspectives of social anthropology, pediatrics, and developmental psychology, the authors demonstrate how child care customs can be responsive to varied socioeconomic, demographic, and cultural conditions without inflicting harm on children. This text will be of interest to researchers in child development and anthropology.

Author : Marito Garcia,Alan R. Pence,Judith L. Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821370545

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Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge by Marito Garcia,Alan R. Pence,Judith L. Evans Pdf

Author : Mary E. Young
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821350508

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From Early Child Development to Human Development by Mary E. Young Pdf

The World Bank convened a global conference in April 2000, to address the benefits and challenges of investing in early childhood development. The fact is that 125 million primary-school age children are not in school; another 150 million children drop out of primary school before they complete four years of education; and almost one-half of the children in the least developed countries of the world do not have access to primary education. With the publication of this volume, which contains the conference proceedings, the World Bank hopes to encourage a broader investment by countries, companies, organisations and private sector institutions in early child development. The book is in five sections: the benefits of investing in the young; measuring the early opportunity gap; evaluating the effectiveness of early childhood programmes; the private sectors influence on the public sector; investing in the future - action and policy.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231005824

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Sankofa: Appreciating the Past in Planning the Future of Early Childhood Education, Care and Development in Africa by UNESCO Pdf

Author : Yaw Ofosu-Kus
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782869787377

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Childrens Agency and Development in African Societies by Yaw Ofosu-Kus Pdf

This book focuses on African childhood and youth within the context of development and socialization where children are expected to be moulded in the image of adults. In many African societies children are generally held as passive bearers of the demands of adults, regardless of the fact that they are often exposed to a multitude of challenges that originate from the capriciousness of those adults. However, buoyed by international conventions and national legislations that offer them greater protection, and the ubiquitous internet that exposes them to childhood and youth experiences elsewhere, many of them are increasingly becoming assertive in homes, schools, and communities as well as re-invigorating their survival and self-preservation instincts. It is in this regard that this book, through the various chapters, engages with their competencies, skills and creativity to respond to experiential challenges as independent migrants or ones under coercion working in city streets and markets or cocoa farms or juggling work and schooling in pursuit of some education. Confronted with their parents and siblings health predicaments and the inadequacies of state and familial care, or urgent negotiation of their sexualities, they demonstrate incredible resilience. Similarly, their perceptiveness is demonstrated in a unique appreciation of politics and its actors and a capacity to assume responsibilities beyond their chronological age. Thus while highlighting some of the challenges confronting African children, the book provides gripping evidence of how they resiliently negotiate those challenges.

Author : Gerd Spittler,M. F. C. Bourdillon
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783643902054

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African Children at Work by Gerd Spittler,M. F. C. Bourdillon Pdf

Most children in Africa start working from a very early age, helping the family or earning wages. Should this work be abolished, tolerated, or encouraged? Such questions are the subject of much debate. International and national organizations, employers, parents, and children often have diverse opinions and put pressure in different directions. The contributions in this book offer intensive fieldwork and careful analysis of children's activities, considering childhood and family, work and play, work in rural and urban contexts, paths to learning, work and school, and children's rights. (Series: Reports on African Studies / Beitrage zur Afrikaforschung - Vol. 52)