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Um Compasso Para Aprender: A Randomized Trial of a Social-Emotional Learning Program in Homicide-Affected Communities in Brazil
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McCoy, Dana C.; Hanno, Emily C.; Ponczek, Vladimir; Pinto, Cristine; Fonseca, Gabriela; Marchi, Natália – Child Development, 2021
Despite global demand, the large-scale effects of social-emotional learning (SEL) programming in developing countries remain underexplored. Using a randomized control trial, this study examined the effectiveness of a school-wide SEL intervention--"Programa Compasso" (PC)--among 3,018 sociodemographically diverse, Portuguese-speaking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Emotional Learning, Program Effectiveness, Student Diversity
A Window into Different Cultural Worlds: Young Children's Everyday Activities in the United States, Brazil, and Kenya
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Tudge, Jonathan R. H.; Doucet, Fabienne; Odero, Dolphine; Sperb, Tania M.; Piccinini, Cesar A.; Lopes, Rita S. – Child Development, 2006
A powerful means to understand young children's normative development in context is to examine their everyday activities. The daily activities of 79 children (3 years old) were observed, for 20 hr each, in their usual settings. Children were selected from 4 cultural groups: European American and African American (Greensboro, United States), Luo…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Social Development, Observation
The Mathematics of Child Street Vendors.
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Saxe, Geoffrey B. – Child Development, 1988
The influence of cultural practices on the cognitive development of largely unschooled children was investigated among 23 candy sellers and matched non-vendors between 10- and 12-years-old who resided in northeast Brazil. Findings are interpreted as supporting a model of cognitive development in which children construct novel understandings while…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context
Brazilian Adolescents' Prosocial Moral Judgment and Behavior: Relations to Sympathy, Perspective Taking, Gender-Role Orientation, and Demographic Characteristics.
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Eisenberg, Nancy; Zhou, Qing; Koller, Silvia – Child Development, 2001
This study examined demographic and individual difference variables that predicted level of Brazilian adolescents' prosocial moral judgment and self-reported prosocial behavior; it also tested mediating or moderating relations among predictors. Findings generally were consistent with contention that tendency to take others' perspectives and to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Demography
The Development of Everyday Mathematics in Brazilian Children with Limited Formal Education.
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Guberman, Steven R. – Child Development, 1996
Studied the sociocultural context in which Brazilian children acquire and use everyday mathematics in terms of currency use. Participants were 105 children, ages 4 to 11, and their parents. Found decreased use of currency with increasing age. Children also used currency to aid their problem solving and progressed from global estimates to the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Development
Social Networks and Daily Activities of Street Youth in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
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Campos, Regina; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Studied the social networks and daily activities of children and adolescents living or working on the streets of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Found that youngsters who lived at home and worked on the street appeared to be experiencing orderly development despite their impoverished circumstances. Youngsters who lived on the streets, however, showed…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Child Development, Children