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Direct linkNatalie Rusk; Rupal Jain; Caitlin K. Martin; Ricarose Roque; João Adriano Freitas; Linford Molaodi – Learning, Media and Technology, 2024
This paper shares reflections and stories from a collaborative design process between the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab and a global network of community-based educators to develop a creative coding app called OctoStudio, which supports children and families to create and share interactive projects on mobile devices. The app…
Descriptors: Community Education, Teachers, Cooperative Learning, Design
Draper, Catherine E.; Cook, Caylee J.; Howard, Steven J.; Makaula, Hleliwe; Merkley, Rebecca; Mshudulu, Mbulelo; Tshetu, Nosibusiso; Scerif, Gaia – Infant and Child Development, 2023
This qualitative study explored caregivers' perceptions of factors influencing early childhood development in low-income, urban South African settings, from a social ecological perspective. Individual interviews were conducted with 15 caregivers of 3-5-year-old children; a reflexive thematic analysis approach was adopted. In the family and home…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Caregiver Attitudes, Preschool Children
Manus, Michelle; van der Linde, Jeannie; Kuper, Hannah; Olinger, Renate; Swanepoel, De Wet – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Introduction: Globally, more than 50 million children have hearing or vision loss. Most of these sensory losses are identified late due to a lack of systematic screening, making treatment and rehabilitation less effective. Mobile health (mHealth), which is the use of smartphones or wireless devices in health care, can improve access to screening…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Visual Impairments, Screening Tests, Low Income Groups
Casper, Virginia; Lamb-Parker, Faith – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2012
The Developing Families Project-South Africa (DFP-SA) is a community-based model of education and training for the care, support and education of vulnerable children birth-to-three and their caregivers, guardians and families in rural and peri-urban townships. The approach fosters interactive learning among community members about early care and…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Child Development
Hodgson, Sarah; Papatheodorou, Theodora; James, Mary – Management in Education, 2014
The article aims to discuss preliminary findings from a participatory monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework, used in a community-based early childhood development (ECD) programme in KwaZulu-Natal South Africa, and their implications for leadership and management. The purposes of the M&E were for LETCEE, the implementing organization,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Evaluation, Community Education, Case Studies
Ebrahim, Hasina Banu; Killian, Bev; Rule, Peter – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
This article explores the practices undertaken by early childhood development practitioners (ECDPs) to support poor and vulnerable children from birth to four years outside centre-based provision. The article draws on part of a UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Fund) commissioned evaluation on family and community-based ECD (Early…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Economically Disadvantaged, Young Children, Interviews
Eloff, I.; de Wet, A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
This research entailed an ethnographic study that sought assets and resources to enrich pre-school learning in a community challenged by poverty. The aim of this research was to identify personal and environmental assets that could be used to enrich pre-school learning within this context--instead of focusing on needs and deficiencies. The assets…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Preschool Education, Observation, Interviews
Download full textvan Wyk, Noleen; Lemmer, Eleanor – South African Journal of Education, 2007
Estimates suggest that approximately 12% of South Africans are HIV positive. As a result of the rapid increase of infections in the mid-1990s and the concomitant increase in HIV/AIDS-related deaths, it is estimated that 13% of children have lost one or both parents due to AIDS. In this study data were obtained by open-ended written accounts by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family School Relationship, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Educational Policy
