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Direct linkNamuddu, Betty – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2021
Africa is rich in natural resources and magnificent flora and fauna; it is also a place full of kind and hospitable people and as diverse in cultures and traditions as any other continent. The author was born in Uganda, in East Africa, and lived there until 2008, when she relocated to the United States to join her husband, a university professor.…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Montessori Schools, Foreign Countries, African Culture
Wolf, Sharon; Avornyo, Esinam Ami – Comparative Education Review, 2023
Early childhood education (ECE) programs are expanding across sub-Saharan Africa. But the quality of these programs, and their effectiveness when implemented at scale, remains unclear. Defining quality is not simple, as learning environments are shaped by cultural values and societal sociodemographics. Framed within sociocultural theory, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Quality
Denise Amankwah; Katie Howard – English in Education, 2024
Bilingual parents must often make difficult and complex choices about which languages to use with their children. While existing research has explored family language practices and attitudes within certain language communities, the experiences of African parents are conspicuously absent from the literature. This study explores factors influencing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, African Languages, Bilingualism
Download full textTaimur, Sadaf; Sattar, Hassan; Dowd, Erin – Pedagogical Research, 2021
The current phenomenological study was undertaken, during the COVID-19 pandemic induced school closures, with the purpose to explore successes and challenges of implementing virtual education and collecting suggestions for improving virtual teaching practice. Data was collected using purposive sampling via social media, using open-ended survey.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Success, Barriers
Ngwaru, J. Marriote – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2013
The majority of people in Southern and Eastern Africa (SEA) including Zimbabwe, Kenya and Uganda live in rural areas on less than two dollars a day. The countries however share education values based on the conviction that education will transform society and as a result have embraced the Millennium Development (MDG) and Education for All (EFA)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Poverty, Role of Education
Keengwe, Jared, Ed.; Onchwari, Grace, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
Standardized tests have been selected as a key assessment factor in expanding the academic achievement of the national student population. However, these tests position immigrant students at the risk of academic failure, leading education experts to search for new strategies and teaching models. The "Handbook of Research on Assessment…
Descriptors: Guides, Immigrants, Refugees, Land Settlement
Agbenyega, Joseph; Klibthong, Sunanta – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2013
Drawing on the social theory concepts of Bourdieu (Field, Capital and Habitus) we explored and gained insights into the perspectives of sub-Saharan African refugee families and preschool educators regarding inclusive education of young children in the South Eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. The study is informed by two curriculum…
Descriptors: Refugees, Foreign Countries, Social Theories, Inclusion
Williams, Jeanne – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the teaching strategies of early childhood development teachers in rural East Africa. Teams of early childhood educators from the United States presented professional development conferences for East African Early Childhood Development teachers during the summers of 2007 and 2008. The conferences introduced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Teaching Methods, Early Childhood Education
Pence, Alan – E-Learning, 2007
This article explores the development and evaluation of the graduate-level Early Childhood Development Virtual University (ECDVU) programme in Sub-Saharan Africa from 2001 through to 2004. It outlines the history of the ECDVU and the establishing of a Sub-Saharan programme for future leaders in the early childhood field guided by the key principle…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Early Childhood Education, Virtual Universities, Young Children
Peer reviewedAndreoni, Helen – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 1998
Describes the work of Australian and Eritrean early childhood educators to establish early childhood education in Eritrea. Discusses how Australian educators are learning about managing multicultural and multilingual communities; Eritrean educators are learning about a holistic approach to education to meet social, emotional, physical,…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Childhood Needs, Cultural Pluralism
German Foundation for International Development, Bonn (West Germany). – 1980
A workshop on "Curriculum for Early Childhood Education," held in the summer of 1979 at the Kenya Institute of Education, aimed to familiarize participants with the problems facing early childhood education in Africa. Specific workshop objectives were (1) to familiarize participants with the psychological, social, political, and economic…
Descriptors: Child Development, Computation, Curriculum Development, Developing Nations
Dunn, Alison – Bernard van Leer Foundation (NJ1), 2005
The research reviewed and the current responses identified in this paper show that at local, national and international levels there are gaps in programming and policy to engage ideas and mobilise resources to address the needs and experiences of very young children infected/affected by HIV and AIDS. Chapter one identifies some key areas where the…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Child Health
