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Diana Milstein; Regina Coeli Machado e Silva; Maria Dantas-Whitney – Ethnography and Education, 2024
The present ethnographic study was conducted in collaboration with thirty-five Latin American children from different countries during the period of school closures precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Through exchanges of multimodal texts (letters, text messages, photos, drawings, audios, videos) and virtual encounters, we sought to understand…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, COVID-19, Pandemics, Family Environment
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Kidd, Sean A.; Liborio, Renata Maria Coimbra – Youth & Society, 2011
An extensive international literature has been developed regarding the risk trajectories of sex trade-involved children and youth. This literature has not, however, substantially incorporated the narratives of youths regarding their experiences. In this article, the contemporary literature on child and youth sex trade-involvement is reviewed and…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Foreign Countries, Social Isolation, Sexuality
Raffaelli, M.; Koller, S. H.; Reppold, C.; Kuschick, M.; Krum, F.; Bandeira, D.; Simoes, C. – 1999
The goal of this analysis was to examine gender differences in the experiences of children and adolescents found on city streets. It has been proposed that girls who leave home to seek their survival on city streets are from more disturbed families than boys, reflecting cultural factors that result in differential norms for male and female…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Children, Family Environment
Moreno Garcia, Teresa, Ed. – Espacio para la Infancia, 2002
This Spanish- and Portuguese-language bulletin presents articles on matters of tolerance, and the lack of it. Among the topics covered are the similarities and differences between projects and organizations that promote tolerance, methods of teaching tolerance, four different projects that combat violence, and some ways in which such projects…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Family Environment
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de Oliveira, Ebenezer A.; Barros, Fernando C.; Anselmi, Luciana D. da Silva; Piccinini, Cesar A. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2006
Based on Bronfenbrenner's (1999) ecological perspective, a longitudinal, prospective model of individual differences in the quality of home environment (Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment--HOME) was tested in a sample of 179 Brazilian children and their families. Perinatal measures of family socioeconomic status (SES) and child…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Pregnancy, Children, Foreign Countries
Rabinovich, Elaine Pedreira – 1996
This study examined the lifestyle of children from a sedentary grouping of 20 homeless families living under a viaduct in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The study particularly focused on issues related to this lifestyle, including dimensions of housing and cultural variations in housing related to child development and child rearing. The lifestyle of the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Childhood Needs, Children