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Download full textRabinovich, 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
Peer reviewedDewees, Anthony; Klees, Steven J. – Comparative Education Review, 1995
Discusses the problems faced by street and working children in Brazil, problems often exacerbated by the educational system. Describes how grass-roots activism led to enactment of an exceptional progressive law protecting children's rights. Examines the failure of technical rationality as the foundation of mainstream educational planning. (SV)
Descriptors: Activism, Child Advocacy, Child Labor, Children
Gustafsson-Wright, Emily; Pyne, Hnin Hnin – 2002
Using data from Brazil's 1996 national household survey, various dimensions of child labor were examined by gender, including participation, intensity, and type of activities; the relationships between child labor, education, and future earnings; and the risks of child labor to health and well being. Findings indicate that more boys than girls…
Descriptors: Child Health, Child Labor, Child Welfare, Education Work Relationship
