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Pentz, Julie L. – Arts Education Policy Review, 2020
Parents and guardians are the first individuals who impact a child's daily life. However, no single person is responsible for the growth and development of a nation's children. Collaboration is critical to a successful community-based program. One often hears the phrase, taken from an African proverb, it takes a village to raise a child. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dance Education, Cooperation, Parents as Teachers
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Elliott-Groves, Emma; Meixi – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2022
Indigenous Knowledge Systems and their underlying ethical qualities guide social interaction and the process by which Indigenous children learn what it means to be a person within family and community life. Using the Learning by Observing and Pitching In (LOPI) framework as a starting point, this paper explores a case study of a death in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Ethics
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Greenwood, Margo; Gercama, Ingrid; Lynch, Paul; Moore, Katie; Mankhwazi, Mika; Mbukwa, Jenipher; Bedford, Juliet – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2022
Focussing on the experiences and perceptions of parents and volunteer caregivers of children with disabilities, this paper reports on a study that explored the provision of early childhood development and inclusive education for children with disabilities in rural Malawi. Drawing on a community-based participatory research (CBPR) design, ten local…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities, Rural Areas, Parent Attitudes
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Chamoux, Marie-Noëlle – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2022
In Nahuatl-speaking villages located in the north of the state of Puebla, family and community educational practices adhere to the Learning by Observing and Pitching In to family and community endeavours model (LOPI). Attentive observation is encouraged as children's principal method of learning. Co-presence is favoured by the adult educators as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, American Indian Languages, Learning Processes, American Indian Education
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Jirata, Tadesse Jaleta – Global Studies of Childhood, 2019
In this article, I address African indigenous knowledge of early childhood development by discussing young children's cultural spaces of care, play and learning among the Guji people of Ethiopia. I analyze practices in the cultural spaces of young children and show how participatory community-based care and learning are pivotal in the tradition of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Play, Young Children
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Sakyi, Kwesi Atta – African Educational Research Journal, 2017
Early childhood education has received attention from philosophers, educationists and psycho-analysts such as Plato, Avicenna, Locke, Pestalozzi, Whitehead, Carl Jung, Binet, Piaget, Montessori, Sigmund Freund, Howard Gardner, among others. In Africa, the backdrop of poverty, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in strife-torn countries, among…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Governance, Intervention
Atkinson, Kim – British Columbia Ministry of Education, 2019
This revised Early Learning Framework is the culmination of a collaborative process that included early childhood educators, primary teachers, academics, Indigenous organizations, Elders, government, and other professionals. The first Early Learning Framework published in 2008 changed the landscape of early years practice in British Columbia. It…
Descriptors: Play, Child Development, Learning Processes, Inquiry
Wesley, Caroline – Children's Environments, 1995
Presents information on the participation of children in effecting change in their lives and their communities in The Concerned for Working Children rural project in Karnataka, India. Discusses the concept of a children's trade union and the nature of community participation in empowering children to lead self-reliant lives. (AIM)
Descriptors: Change, Child Development, Child Labor, Childrens Rights
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Non-Formal Education Information Center. – 1981
Compiled from the resource collection of Michigan State University's Non-Formal Education (NFE) Information Center, this bibliography contains over 100 references to international publications related to children's education, environment, development, labor, and health, and the training of persons involved in child education, development, and…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Child Development, Child Labor, Child Welfare
Amar Amar, Jose Juan – 1996
In Latin America and the Caribbean, 240 million people, or 50 percent of the population, live in poverty. This report, written in Spanish, summarizes research by the Proyecto Costa Atlantica into the effects of such widespread poverty on the cognitive and social development of children. After an introduction on the general responses of the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Community Role, Disadvantaged Environment
Guy, Kathleen A., Ed. – 1997
This book is the result of a nationwide collaborative effort in Canada to draft national goals on healthy child and youth development. Following a brief introduction, the book is divided into three main sections. Section one examines how children develop in the following four chapters: (1) "The Mind Matters: A Child's Developing Brain";…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Advocacy, Child Behavior, Child Development
Cohen, Ruth; And Others – 1994
This report describes early childhood development (ECD) in Africa and the Bernard van Leer Foundation's strategies for early childhood programs in African nations. Chapter 1 examines the context in which Africa's children are growing up, focusing on the hardships that many children face, as well as the efforts made by families, communities, and…
Descriptors: Caregiver Role, Child Development, Community Role, Early Childhood Education
Amar, Jose Juan Amar – 1996
In Latin America and the Caribbean, poverty is not merely a problem of marginalized communities. It is the situation in which 240 million people--50 percent of the population--are living. This report describes research undertaken by the Quality of Life Project, which aims to improve the situation of children in these disadvantaged communities. The…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Welfare, Childhood Attitudes, Children
British Columbia Ministry of Education, 2008
This document, British Columbia's Early Learning Framework, is intended to guide and support early childhood educators, StrongStart BC facilitators, early years professionals, service providers, communities and governments in providing rich early learning experiences for children from birth to kindergarten. The document may also be of interest for…
Descriptors: Play, Child Development, Learning Processes, Inquiry
Keating, Daniel P., Ed.; Hertzman, Clyde, Ed. – 1999
Asking how we can best support the health and well-being of infants and children in an era of rapid economic and technological change, this book presents findings on human development as both an individual and a population phenomenon. Topics discussed include links between socioeconomic status, achievement, and health; the impact of early…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Animal Behavior, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Development