I chose to look at the website from the Early Childhood Development Virtual University Sub-Sahara Africa because I wanted to find out about early childhood in Africa. During my last course the students were to get in contact with a professional from another country to get information on early childhood but I never received a response from anyone but I am always curious about Africa.
On this particular website there were several research papers written by early childhood students in a master's program who had done research in various countries in Africa. A paper from Susan Sabaa was written about "Development of a Model Framework for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in their Early Years in Ghana" (2004). The paper researched on infants and how secure they are in the bonding process and how they develop while in institutional care - orphanage. She stated that some do well who have the survival resilence and most are in an orphanage because of HIV/AIDS. Her work gave me insight in the plight of children in Ghana and those who are in any type of instituition where bonding between infants and adults is limited. Infants need to be able to have consistant caring and attachment support to develope.
Another research paper that I looked at was by Asha Mohammed Ahmed who wrote "Building Community Leadership for Quality Sustainability in Madrasa Preschools: The Case of Madras Preschools Post Graduation Support" (2003) in Tanzania. The paper was on how Community Resource Teams (CRT) help support capacity building in poor communities to establish quality preschools. The paper's objective was to show how the training and monitoring of the CRT's helped in getting supplies to the community in the building project of the Madras Preschools and helping the communities take ownership of the projects and the completion of the preschools. In America it is easy to build a preschool but in countries like Tanzania, quality preschool is not found and I am glad to know that the Madras Preschools are building schools in the areas that have limited early childhood access.
This website had research papers that were done in Malawi, Zambia, Nigeria, Uganda, and Eritrea. I did not look at all of these research papers but I do plan to go back and review them in the future.
Resource:
http://www.ecdvu.org/ssa/major_reports.php
Did you see the study that was actually done in Rhode Island?
ReplyDeleteWhat I found most interesting about the research they are doing in SSA is that so many of the topics are issues that we are researching here in the US. It makes the world a smaller place when you realize that researchers in Africa are studying fatherhood involvement, grandparents as caregivers, effects of single-motherhood and accessible care just as we are.