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Evans-Palmer, Teri E.; Shen, Mei-Yi – Africa Education Review, 2017
This study examined a five-year project initiated by the Women's Global Connection (WGC) to train pre-primary teachers in schools serving HIV/AIDS orphans in Zambia. The researchers evaluated the contextual factors of the training initiative to clarify why some teachers possess high self-efficacy, while others do not. The article analyses the…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Program Descriptions
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Paxson, Christina; Schady, Norbert – Journal of Human Resources, 2007
We examine the relationship between early cognitive development, socioeconomic status (SES), child health, and parenting quality in a developing country. We use a sample of more than 3,000 predominantly poor preschool-aged children from Ecuador, and analyze determinants of their scores on a widely used test of language ability. We find that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Child Health, Language Aptitude