Research on African children has made key contributions to the emergence of a more
globalized developmental science, advancing theory and providing illuminating examples in …

Evidence from Africa constitutes a real challenge to knowledge in the child development
field as we have received it from those whom we consider experts. All too often culturally …

The provision of early childhood development services is expanding in developing
countries. The rationale behind this expansion is rooted in developmental psychology, socio …

The study examines the preschool programs-the predominant model found in the two
countries-of early childhood care, and development (ECCD), in the comparatively wealthy …

Within the South African context, early childhood development (ECD) is receiving increasing
attention at both government and civil society levels. This has resulted in children accessing …

Adolescent psychology is a Eurocentric enterprise. Western social scientists, for example,
have demonstrated remarkable ethnocentrism and have, with few recent exceptions …

Abstract Global Early Childhood Development (ECD)—an applied field with the aim to
improve the “brain structure and function” of future generations in the global South—has …

The research presented here was sponsored by Berry Street Childhood Institute, the Centre
for Community Child Health (the Centre), Goodstart Early Learning, the Parenting Research …

Argues that the need for an appropriate developmental psychology for Africa, and the search
for" indigenous" psychologies, should not prevent the development of overarching …