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Namazzi, Elizabeth; Kendrick, Maureen E. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
This article reports on a study focusing on the use of multilingual cultural resources in child-headed households (CHHs) in Uganda's Rakai District. Using funds of knowledge and sociocultural perspectives on children's learning, we documented through ethnographic observations and interviews how children in four CHHs used multilingual cultural…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Heads of Households, Singing, Proverbs
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Moyi, Peter – Current Issues in Education, 2013
At the World Education Forum in Dakar in 2000, governments pledged to achieve education for all by 2015. However, if current enrollment trends continue, the number of out-of-school children could increase from current levels. Greater focus is needed on lower secondary school age (13-16 years) children. These children are not included estimates of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Age, Attendance, Foreign Countries
Phillips, Charlotte – Online Submission, 2011
In the face of growing international support for recognition of child-headed households, the author poses the following questions: What does the internationally recognised right to alternative care for children entail? Is the recognition of child-headed households as a form of alternative care in line with the Convention on the Rights of the Child…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Child Care, Heads of Households, Children
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Kendrick, Maureen; Kakuru, Doris – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2012
Much of the research on orphan and vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa has focused on their risks and vulnerabilities. This article describes the "funds of knowledge" (Moll and Greenberg, 1990) and means of acquiring new knowledge of children living in child-headed households in Uganda's Rakai District. Using ethnographic methods,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Death, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)