Listen to your children Rocinha! Project Bulletin No. 4
In this bulletin, we present the voices of early childhood staff in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro talking about their creches in the time of COVID-19, and their relationships with the municipality.
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Listen to your children Rocinha! And Jardim Catarina as well! Project Bulletin No. 3
In this third Project Bulletin, we discuss the importance of early childhood education, the rights to early childhood education set out in Brazilian law and the major role creches and pre-schools play in children’s lives.
Listen to your children Rocinha! And Jardim Catarina as well! Project Bulletin No. 2
In this second newsletter, we write about the importance of listening to children talk about their lives. We describe our recent experiences working with the Brazilian National Coalition on Early Childhood Education (RNPI) on talking with children about their experiences during the COVID epidemic.
Listen to your children Rocinha! and Jardim Catarina as well! Project Bulletin No. 1
This is the first bulletin of the project UKRI GCRF Safe, Inclusive Participative Pedagogy: Improving Early Childhood Education in Challenging Contexts. The project aims to contribute to debates and actions to improve the education of children 0 to 5 years old in low-income communities in Brazil.
Early childhood in Brazil: expanding opportunities for the healthy development of children aged 0 to 8 years
The violence that affects children in Rio’s favelas – clues for an agenda of actions.
Safe places for children
Expanding and improving safe places for young children in the low-income community of Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro.
Early childhood, sanitation and zika virus
Brazilian low-income communities face zika with appalling sanitation. Huge challenge for the Olympic city of Rio de Janeiro.
Global Prevalence of Past-year Violence Against Children: A Systematic Review and Minimum Estimates
Evidence confirms associations between childhood violence and major causes of mortality in adulthood. A synthesis of data on past-year prevalence of violence against children will help advance the United Nations’ call to end all violence against children.
Assessing risk of bias in prevalence studies: modification of an existing tool and evidence of interrater agreement
In the course of performing systematic reviews on the prevalence of low back and neck pain, we required a tool to assess the risk of study bias. Our objectives were to (1) modify an existing checklist and (2) test the final tool for interrater agreement.