[PDF] Reaching And Investing In Children At The Margins eBook

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 11,75 MB
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309441048

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The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2015-2030 strive for a world that is "just, equitable, and inclusive," in which everyone receives care, education, and opportunities to thrive. Yet many children are living on the margins of society, face multiple disadvantages, and are excluded from full participation in all that life has to offer. To examine the science, economics, and politics of investing in the health, education, nutrition, and social protection of children at the margins, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop in Prague, Czech Republic in November 2015. Held in partnership with the Open Society Foundations and the International Step by Step Association, the workshop convened a diverse group of stakeholders from around the world for 2 days of discussion. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 2016-07-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309441013

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The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2015-2030 strive for a world that is "just, equitable, and inclusive," in which everyone receives care, education, and opportunities to thrive. Yet many children are living on the margins of society, face multiple disadvantages, and are excluded from full participation in all that life has to offer. To examine the science, economics, and politics of investing in the health, education, nutrition, and social protection of children at the margins, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop in Prague, Czech Republic in November 2015. Held in partnership with the Open Society Foundations and the International Step by Step Association, the workshop convened a diverse group of stakeholders from around the world for 2 days of discussion. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309459265

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Focusing on young children in a global context is an approach to end the cycle of poverty and improve the well-being of nations. Improving well-being necessarily begins with core elements such as health, education, nutrition, and social protection; many efforts to improve child development in the first decade of life focus on areas to meet young children's basic needs. Young children living in low-resourced settings are vulnerable to developmental and educational risk factors, such as stunting and undernutrition, disease, caregiver depression, lack of access to quality preprimary and primary education, disabilities, poverty, and societal and familial violence. While each of these areas is important for children's growth and development, there are potential increased benefits from integrated programs and coordinated policies that address more than one of these areas simultaneously, particularly for children living in low-resourced communities. An integrated and coordinated "all system" approach may be the best way to guarantee that children will have the prerequisites for healthy development. The Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally was established with the goal of integrating knowledge with action in regions around the world to inform evidence-based, strategic investments in young children, birth through age 8. The forum held nine workshops across five continents over 3 years. The goal was to learn from experiences in multiple regions and engage in culturally embedded dialogue. This publication summarizes the key themes from the presentations and discussions of the workshops.

Author : Sophie Naudeau
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 2010-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821385283

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This Early Child Development (ECD) Guide responds to a growing demand from practitioners for advice and tools to facilitate the policy dialogue on the topic of ECD. It will help policy makers implement relevant choices on how to best invest in ECD in the context of their country’s economy and national priorities.

Author : Sheldon Danziger
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 22,32 MB
Release : 2000-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1610441508

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More than ever, the economic health of a country depends upon the skills, knowledge, and capacities of its people. How does a person acquire these human assets and how can we promote their development? Securing the Future assembles an interdisciplinary team of scholars to investigate the full range of factors—pediatric, psychological, social, and economic—that bear on a child's development into a well-adjusted, economically productive member of society. A central purpose of the volume is to identify sound interventions that will boost human assets, particularly among the disadvantaged. The book provides a comprehensive evaluation of current initiatives and offers a wealth of new suggestions for effective public and private investments in child development. While children from affluent, highly educated families have good quality child care and an expensive education provided for them, children from poor families make do with informal child care and a public school system that does not always meet their needs. How might we best redress this growing imbalance? The contributors to this volume recommend policies that treat academic attainment together with psychological development and social adjustment. Mentoring programs, for example, promote better school performance by first fostering a young person's motivation to learn. Investments made early in life, such as preschool education, are shown to have the greatest impact on later learning for the least cost. In their focus upon children, however, the authors do not neglect the important links between generations. Poverty and inequality harm the development of parents and children alike. Interventions that empower parents to fight for better services and better schools are also of great benefit to their children. Securing the Future shows how investments in child development are both a means to an end and an end in themselves. They benefit the child directly and they also help that child contribute to the well-being of society. This book points us toward more effective strategies for promoting the economic success and the social cohesion of future generations. A Volume in the Ford Foundation Series on Asset Building

Author : PRABHAT KUMAR
Publisher : EduPedia Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 18,41 MB
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9386954494

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The abused Children, trafficked, are not only that of the public space. In fact, through empirical observations, it appears that the family micro-contexte is also the setting in which aggression against trafficked children develops and persists. . In order to enhance rights of children and their well being, NGOs play a very important role whereby they provide child sponsorship programs. Their accomplishment in raising finances over the last decade has positioned them in the midst of the largest and most common aid organizations at large. From this point of view, the juvenile victim of human trafficking and other crime will bear the stigma almost all her life, with possible consequences on her reproductive health, on her psychology of mother, wife, educator, in short, on her network relational. This state of affairs puts back on the agenda the urgent problem of institutional support to juvenile victim of human trafficking and other crime, incest being considered taboo, as a social prohibition in many cultures of different parts of the countries. But there have been concerns raised about the methods and lapses these NGOs play in the oversight and practices relating to the programs. Indeed, how can we gauge state governance vis-à-vis this situation that becomes a real issue? What are the actions of policy makers as well as NGOs in the follow-up and psychosocial reintegration of juvenile victim of human trafficking and other crime and also examine the consequence of headship and organizational effectiveness? How important are they to taking into account issues related to the human trafficking and violence against inmates is exercised against them? What concrete proposals can be made to support the political forces in the fight against this specific type of violence against children? How these problems can be highlighted in their political aspect and can be drawn out of the darkness where they have been relegated and neglected? Another area which the researcher tries to understand through this dissertation is that since there is a lot of difference between the environment in an institutional home and a normal home, cases have been found where children from these institutional homes have tried to run away because of reasons that may range from ill treatment to lack of providing proper food. Hence through this project researcher tries to focus upon this area. Seeking to find answers to this questioning, the present work proposes to make a socio-critical analysis of the politico-institutional dynamics on the question. It is a socio-anthropological analysis that seeks to identify the strengths and weaknesses of governance in this area and reveal the scandal by the detailed description of the various forms of human trafficking and indicating how these practices were concealed and ignored although they constitutes acts of high crime, with the aim of developing concrete proposals that can help policy makers in their possible interventions in this direction. To achieve this, methodological prescriptions have been respected. One years ago, the anthology Kosish (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, 2018) was published, in which various experts discussed the importance of empirical research for different policy and prevention practice related to inmates residing in shelter home and human trafficking.

Author : Laura E. Levine
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1544359705

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In the topically organized Child Development: An Active Learning Approach, Fourth Edition, authors Laura E. Levine and Joyce Munsch take students on an active journey toward understanding children and their development. Active Learning activities integrated throughout the text capture student interest and turn reading into an engaged learning process. Through the authors’ active learning philosophy, students are challenged to test their knowledge, confront common misconceptions, relate the material to their own experiences, and participate in real-world activities independently and with children. Because consuming research is equally important in the study of child development, Journey of Research features provide both historical context and its links to today’s cutting-edge research studies. Students will discover the excitement of studying child development while gaining skills they can use long after course completion. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Contact your SAGE representative to request a demo. Digital Option / Courseware SAGE Vantage is an intuitive digital platform that delivers this text’s content and course materials in a learning experience that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools, all carefully designed to ignite student engagement and drive critical thinking. Built with you and your students in mind, it offers simple course set-up and enables students to better prepare for class. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available with SAGE Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. Watch a sample video on Newborn Skin-to-Skin Contact LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.

Author : Radosveta Dimitrova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0190654066

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"Roma ethnic minority, also called the Romani people and sometimes as gypsies (usually in derogatory way), have one of the most dramatic histories in Europe and worldwide. The Indian origin of Roma as advocated by linguists since the 18th century, based on similarities between the Romany language (referred also as Romanes or Romani) and the Sanskrit (Achim, 2004), is now widely accepted. Although the precise region of the Indian sub-continent which Roma originated and migrated from to Europe remains elusive, genetic linguistic, historical and anthropological findings suggest that their migration started from Central India, to the Northern India, then transiting Persia and Armenia and travelled towards the Byzantine Empire and Asia Minor, and finally to Greece (Kenrick, 2007). The precise time when the journey started is also uncertain. Historical records indicate that Roma first came to work in Persia sometime between 224-241, and were either brought or deported to the Arab Empire at the start of 661, reach Constantinople in 1050, and then were in Greece in 1290. They then continued to Eastern Europe and Balkans (arriving in Serbia in 1348, Croatia in 1362, Bulgaria in 1378, Romania in 1385), followed by Central and Western Europe (arriving in Germany in 1407, France and Switzerland in 1418, Belgium in 1419, Holland in 1420, Italy in 1422, Spain in 1425, Hungary in 1489, and England in 1513; see Kenrick, 2007, for a comprehensive chronology of Roma history)"--