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Cuartas, Jorge; McCoy, Dana; Sánchez, Juliana; Behrman, Jere; Cappa, Claudia; Donati, Georgina; Heymann, Jody; Lu, Chunling; Raikes, Abbie; Rao, Nirmala; Richter, Linda; Stein, Alan; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu – Developmental Science, 2023
This paper used longitudinal data from five studies conducted in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, and Rwanda to examine the links between family stimulation and early childhood development outcomes (N = 4904; M[subscript age] = 51.5; 49% girls). Results from random-effects and more conservative child-fixed effects models indicate that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Child Development, Family Environment
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Al Mamun, Md Abdullah; Hossain, Md Akbar; Salehin, Sayedus; Hossain Khan, Md. Shahadat; Hasan, Mahbub – Educational Technology & Society, 2022
The recent outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic forced education institutes to shift to an internet-based online delivery mode. This unique situation accelerates a long-standing issue of digital inequality among the students in education and warrants a concentrated study to investigate students' readiness for learning in online environment. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Biswas, Raaj Kishore; Sarker, Elizabeth Bianca; Kabir, Enamul; Senserrick, Teresa – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2020
Health policies and public health studies in Bangladesh primarily focus on physical aspects of health, thus creating a gap in the literature regarding the assessment of the emotional-social environment for children and their developmental vulnerabilities. Interactions though literacy activities, such as shared reading times between child and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Books, Family Environment, Incidence
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Tonioli, Valeria – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
The aim of the paper is to present the results of a research project called 'Tell Me', conducted from October 2018 to March 2020. The project focused on Bengali children living in Venice, Italy, and aimed to describe (1) children's languages in the home environment and at school; (2) the quality and quantity of input they receive in every language…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Italian, Family Relationship, Language Usage
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Chowdhury, Faieza – Educational Process: International Journal, 2020
Every student has the right to feel safe within their academic institution. However, many experience frequent bullying and undergo mental traumas, alienation and self-destructive behaviors. Bullying is largely an unreported and unaddressed issue in many academic institutions, which can result in long-lasting effects on students' lives. A study…
Descriptors: Bullying, Educational Environment, Victims, Undergraduate Students
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Rasool, Shahid; Zhang, Jingshun; Aydin, Hasan; Halpern, Clarisse – New Waves-Educational Research and Development Journal, 2021
This study examined the factor structure of an instrument used to measure first generation Bangladeshi, Indian, and Pakistani (FGBIP) parental involvement behaviors in their children's academic achievement in Southwest Florida. A survey was designed for FGBIP parents/guardians of K-12 children studying in public schools based on commonly used…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Family Environment, Immigrants
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Sikder, Shukla; Fleer, Marilyn – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2018
Vygotsky (in: Rieber, Carton (eds) The collected works of L.S. Vygotsky, vol 1, Pleneum Press, Newyork, pp 167-241, Retrieved from http://images.lib.monash.edu.au/edf5411/04118997.pdf, 1987) stated that academic or scientific concepts require a level of conscious awareness on the part of the child within everyday situations. Academic concepts can…
Descriptors: Science Education, Child Development, Scientific Concepts, Infants
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Sikder, Shukla; Fleer, Marilyn – Research in Science Education, 2015
Vygotsky (1987) stated that the restructured form of everyday concepts learned at home and in the community interact with scientific concepts introduced in formal school settings, leading to a higher level of scientific thinking for school-aged children. But, what does this mean for the scientific learning of infants and toddlers? What kinds of…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Foreign Countries, Scientific Concepts
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George, Christine Marie; Biswas, Shwapon; Jung, Danielle; Perin, Jamie; Parvin, Tahmina; Monira, Shirajum; Saif-Ur-Rahman, K. M.; Rashid, Mahamud-ur; Bhuyian, Sazzadul Islam; Thomas, Elizabeth D.; Dreibelbis, Robert; Begum, Farzana; Zohura, Fatema; Zhang, Xiaotong; Sack, David A.; Alam, Munirul; Sack, R. Bradley; Leontsini, Elli; Winch, Peter J. – Health Education & Behavior, 2017
Inadequate hand hygiene is estimated to result in nearly 300,000 deaths annually, with the majority of deaths being among children younger than 5 years. In an effort to promote handwashing with soap and water treatment behaviors among highly susceptible household members of cholera patients, we recently developed the Cholera-Hospital-Based…
Descriptors: Hygiene, Health Promotion, Health Behavior, Intervention
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Laxton, Debra; Cooper, Linda; Shrestha, Purna; Younie, Sarah – Education 3-13, 2021
This case study used a co-creation approach to evaluate the effectiveness of a translational research strategy in supporting early childhood education. How Mapping Educational Specialist Knowhow (MESH) and Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) collaborated to enhance the training of volunteers and learning provision for 1,500 refugee children is…
Descriptors: Refugees, Case Studies, Objectives, Language Variation
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Sikder, Shukla – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
The social situation of development (SSD) specific to each age determines regularly the whole picture of the child's life. Therefore, we need to learn about the whole context surrounding children relevant to their development. The focus of the study is to understand parent's views on infant-toddler's science concept formation in the family…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Concept Formation, Infants, Toddlers
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Dowd, Amy Jo; Pisani, Lauren – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2013
Children's reading skill development is influenced by availability of reading materials, reading habits and opportunity to read. Save the Children's Literacy Boost data have replicated this finding across numerous developing contexts. Meanwhile international large-scale reading assessments do not capture detail on current home literacy. The…
Descriptors: International Programs, Measurement, Reading Tests, Literacy
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Sabates, R.; Hossain, A.; Lewin, K.M. – International Journal of Educational Development, 2013
This paper examines the relative strength of different factors associated with school drop out using data collected between 2007 and 2009 in Bangladesh. A sample of 9046 children, aged 4-15, was selected across six districts for a household survey focusing on children's school access and experiences. Two groups of children were identified: those…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Correlation
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Mand, Kanwal – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2010
This article explores the experiences of "home" for British-born Bangladeshi children who are active members of transnational families. The article illustrates that these children, who are mobile between Sylhet and London, play an active role in maintaining transnational linkages. The article critiques the omission of children's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attitude Measures, Family Life, Identification (Psychology)
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Jessel, John; Kenner, Charmian; Gregory, Eve; Ruby, Mahera; Arju, Tahera – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2011
This paper investigates informal learning, literacy and language development occurring in the home through exchanges between children of three to six years of age and their grandparents in Sylheti/Bengali-speaking families of Bangladeshi origin and monolingual English-speaking families of mixed ethnicity living in east London. A survey identifying…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Informal Education, Grandparents, Monolingualism