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S. Gavin Weiser; Linsay DeMartino – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2025
Like the depiction of plagues in apocalyptic science fiction, neoliberalism continues to infect education at all levels. This infection causes educators to care not for the children, but to embrace the figure of the Child. Reproductive futurism, in the imagined redemptive figure of the Child has been regulating the structure of education not for…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Science Fiction, Neoliberalism, Futures (of Society)
Keeley, Brian, Ed.; Little, Céline, Ed.; Zuehlke, Eric, Ed. – UNICEF, 2019
This edition of "The State of the World's Children" report examines children, food and nutrition. It seeks to deepen understanding around the causes and consequences of children's malnutrition in all its forms and to highlight how governments, business, families and other stakeholders can best respond. Chapter 1 examines the changing…
Descriptors: Food, Nutrition, Child Development, Water
Black, Connie; O'Shaughnessy, Molly – NAMTA Journal, 2014
Montessori Partners Serving All Children is endorsed in terms of economic development as a statistically proven return for the money, leadership, parent education, institutional partners, and a sense of community in preparing teachers to serve families with a hub of resources through Montessori Center of Minnesota. Assessment is also integral to…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Economic Development, Outcomes of Education, Teamwork
Pan, Lu; Ye, Jingzhong – Chinese Education & Society, 2017
Over the past 30 years in China, the development ideology--a model of economic development that is characterized by urbanization, industrialization, and modernization--has brought about many changes and consequences, including increased migration by the rural population, sharp adjustments in urban-rural education policy, the decline of rural…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Age Differences, Gender Differences, Socioeconomic Influences
Burman, Erica – Curriculum Inquiry, 2016
Frantz Fanon's analysis of colonial experience has widely influenced educational theory and practice. Yet, despite much focus on the gendered and sexed dynamics of racialization processes, and their applications to the dynamics in particular of teaching and learning, surprisingly little attention has been given to how these intersect both with…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Educational Practices, Models, Children
Ogunyemi, Florence T.; Ragpot, Lara – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2015
The work reviews the ongoing controversy over work and play within the framework of a constructivist early childhood curriculum. Educators and parents with narrow perception of play view it as mere physical actions of walking, clapping and singing outside class work. However, educators who hold a constructivist epistemological view of child play…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Play, Constructivism (Learning)
Tate, William F.; Jones, Brittni D. – Educational Researcher, 2017
Ferguson, Missouri, has been characterized as an archetype of structural inequality and segregation. Several questions guide this investigation of Ferguson and its surrounding region. How did policies, practices, and folkways help to create the conditions in Ferguson and the broader metropolitan region? The regional segregation regime's history…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Neighborhoods, Public Policy, Metropolitan Areas
Bernard van Leer Foundation, 2016
"The demographics of families in poverty around the globe may be diverse, but parents' dreams for their children are similar everywhere: good health, a good education, economic stability, and a better future." This new report from the Bernard van Leer Foundation and Ascend at The Aspen Institute develops a "two generation"…
Descriptors: Poverty, Family Programs, Child Development, Partnerships in Education
Chase, Richard; Emarita, Betty; Carlson, Elizabeth; Giovanelli, Allie – Wilder Research, 2016
This policy plan offers an approach to early childhood policies that get to the roots of racial equity. It describes how to promote social, economic, health, and educational equity by broadening the current early childhood public policy focus in Minnesota on early education and service programs to also include funding efforts that promote positive…
Descriptors: Infants, Public Policy, Child Health, Child Development
Lata, Divya; Stepanyan, Anahit – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2013
Despite reasonably high economic growth in recent years, many countries in the Central Eastern Europe/Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS) region struggle to achieve high national standards to guarantee basic rights for all their citizens. Families with young children are particularly vulnerable and are often unable to provide a stable and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Access to Education, Early Intervention
Zou, Li; Sherraden, Michael – Online Submission, 2010
A growing number of national and local governments view child development accounts (CDAs) as an innovative policy tool for social and economic development. This article reviews the global landscape of CDAs, presents three CDA policy cases from Asia, analyzes main themes and discusses potential implications for China. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Economic Development, Foreign Countries, Local Government, Child Development
Cournoyer, David – W. K. Kellogg Foundation, 2012
Vulnerable children in Michigan face intersecting disparities, with race, class and geographic location often combining to limit access to health, education and economic security. Addressing this reality requires reliable and comprehensive data that can guide thoughtful action within communities and among institutions alike. To this end, the W. K.…
Descriptors: American Indians, Minority Group Children, American Indian Culture, Tribes
Bianchi, Jon-Paul – Colorado Children's Campaign, 2009
In order for families to support themselves, parents must have access to jobs and the ability to consistently go to work to keep them. Current economic hardships highlight even more clearly this critical connection. One barrier that prevents many working parents from maintaining employment and supporting their families is access to child care. A…
Descriptors: Child Care, Economic Development, Employed Parents, Investment
Nordtveit, Bjorn Harald – International Journal of Educational Development, 2008
This paper argues that many internationally financed literacy programs do not sufficiently take into consideration important daily life issues of the learners, including nutritional deficiencies that may hinder learning, or of children-parent-society interactions that may improve learning. As a result, many programs have become synonymous with…
Descriptors: Family Planning, Poverty, Females, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, 2006
The public dollars spent to stimulate economic development would be more wisely invested in child development programs, according to two different streams of research. Brain research shows the impact of experiences and environments on the developing brain architecture, with weaker architecture leading to increased vulnerability to later problems…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Early Childhood Education, Outcomes of Education, Brain