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Early Childhood Care and Education at the Margins: African Perspectives on Birth to Three book cover

1st Edition

Early Childhood Care and Education at the Margins African Perspectives on Birth to Three

Edited By Hasina Ebrahim, Auma Okwany, Oumar Barry Copyright 2019
194 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge
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The importance of early childhood care and education (ECCE) in the lives of very young children is gaining increasing attention around the globe and yet there is a persistent lack of diverse knowledge perspectives on this critical phase. This stems from dominant Eurocentric framings of early childhood research, and related theories. Early Childhood Care and Education at the Margins... Read more

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Foreword

Chapter 1: Creating visibility for birth to 3 in Africa: A push from the margins

Auma Okwany and Hasina Banu Ebrahim

Chapter 2: Small stories from the margins: Cartographies of child poverty and vulnerability experience in Kenya

Elizabeth Ngutuku

Chapter 3: Early child care and development in Central African refugee families in Cameroon Mbere villages

Harouna

Chapter 4: Reconstructing child caregiving: Perspectives on child headed households in Uganda

Doris M. Kakuru

Chapter 5: Contesting and rethinking the role of men in early childhood care and education support system for birth to 3 in Zimbabwe

Hilton Nyamukapa

Chapter 6: Repositioning peripheral voices: Examining institutional processes of exclusion in health care provisioning for urban poor children from birth to 3 years

Aurelia Munene

Chapter 7: Socialisation of children aged birth to 3 in Benin: Representations and routes

Pélagie Mongbo-Gbenahou

Chapter 8: Early childhood care narratives of young mothers in Uganda

Annah Kamusiime

Chapter 9: Bridging narratives: Intergenerational transmission of indigenous knowledge in the care and education of children from birth to 3 in Madagascar

Zanafy Gladys Abdoul

Chapter 10: Factors influencing parental choice of centre-based provision for early childhood care and education in Ghana

Fauster Agbenyo

Chapter 11: Perspectives on early childhood education as a fundamental right in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Roger Thamba Thamba

Chapter 12: Challenges in implementing a home visiting model for early childhood development in South Africa

Malibongwe Gwele and Hasina Banu Ebrahim

Chapter 13: Paternal involvement in early childhood care and development in Cameroon and Congo-Brazzaville: Contextual redefinition of indicators

Olivier Abondo

Biography

Hasina Banu Ebrahim is a full professor in Early Childhood Education at the University of South Africa.

Auma Okwany is an assistant professor of Social Policy at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Oumar Barry is an assistant professor at Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Senegal.

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