Jena Hamadani, Fahmida Tofail, A Hilaly, Syed Nazmul Huda et al.
Poor stimulation in the home is one of the main factors affecting the development of children living in poverty. The family care indicators (FCIs) were developed to measure home stimulation in large populations and were derived from the Home Observations for Measurement of the Environment (HOME). Th...
Frances E. Aboud
Frances E. Aboud, Daisy R. Singla, Md Imam Nahil, Ivelina Borisova
A stratified cluster design was used to evaluate a 10-month parenting program delivered to mothers of children in rural Bangladesh. Intervention mothers through a combination of group meetings and home visits received messages along with an illustrative card concerning hygiene, responsive feeding, p...
Martin Woodhead
This article summarizes some features of the Radda Barnen (Swedish Save the Children) study `Children's Perspectives on their Working Lives'. The case is made for working children's participation in the process of combatting child labour. Their participation will help ensure that interventions desig...
Harold L. Hodgkinson
Editor's Note: The editorial team of the Journal of Teacher Education asked Professor Hodgkinson to write a brief overview of U.S. demographics and teacher education that would help to introduce this issue of the journal on Demography and Democracy. In a later issue of JTE, a full-length article by ...
Farzana Shain
Challenging western misconceptions and stereoptypes of young Asian girls, this book through the analysis of Asian girls experiences reassesses the role that schooling can play in shaping their identities. It draws on an empirical study with Muslim, Hindu and Sikh schoolgirls of Pakistani, Indian and...
Maureen M. Black, Abdullah H Baqui, K. Zaman, Scot McNary et al.
Masud Ahmmed, Umesh Sharma, Joanne Deppeler
This paper presents an overview of a study conducted to examine the influence of teacher attitudes, teacher efficacy and perceived school support on teachers’ intentions to include students with disabilities in government primary schools in a region of Bangladesh. All of the variables were conceptua...
Douglas Almond, Bhashkar Mazumder, Reyn van Ewijk
A large literature has linked the in utero environment to health in adulthood. We consider how prenatal nutrition may shape human capital acquisition in childhood, utilising the month-long Ramadan fast as a natural experiment. In student register data for Pakistani and Bangladeshi families in Englan...
Charmian Kenner, Mahera Ruby, John Jessel, Eve Gregory et al.
This study investigates the learning exchange between three— to six-year-old children and their grandparents, in Sylheti/Bengali-speaking families of Bangladeshi origin and monolingual English-speaking families living in east London. The following concepts from sociocultural theory are applied to th...
Frances E. Aboud
To promote physical and mental development of children, parenting education programmes in developing countries focus on specific practices such as age-appropriate responsive stimulation and feeding. A programme delivered to groups of poor mothers of children, aged less than three years, in rural Ban...
Ricardo Sabatés, Altaf Hossain, Keith Lewin
Mariane Hedegaard, Karin Aronsson, Charlotte Højholt, Oddbjørg Skær Ulvik
Dónal O’Neill, Sinéad McGilloway, Michael Donnelly, Tracey Bywater et al.
Early onset of behavioural problems has lasting negative effects on a broad range of lifetime outcomes, placing large costs on individuals, families and society. A number of researchers and policy makers have argued that early interventions aimed at supporting the family is the most effective way of...
Sally Grantham‐McGregor, Joanne Smith
We review the development of the Jamaican home visiting intervention for children under 4 years and its evidence base. The intervention has focused on supporting mothers to promote the development of their children through interacting in a responsive way, labelling the environment and activities. Th...