GLOBAL CHILDHOOD AS A CONCEPT privileges western ideals of how young children
experience growing up, how adults educate them, and how priorities are set for them. Ways …

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 …

This paper explores the contested identity and belonging for outsider-children in Kenya. I
explore the experience of children born out of marriage, those from other unions, the …

The development of standards in early childhood is associated with governments wanting to
assert their influence on what young children should know and be able to do before they …

Despite major steps towards providing early childhood care and education (ECCE) services
in Kenya and Uganda, access to responsive services is still out of reach for many young …

We reflect on ways in which research presented in earlier chapters responds to challenges
of generating an African child development field and identify additional issues calling for the …

Communication among different stakeholders about early childhood education is
complicated by differences between their perspectives on the topic. Scientists interpret child …

Human development from infancy to adulthood is acknowledged in all societies as a
process demanding protection, care and guidance. In African pre-colonial cultures these …

EP is credited as the first anthropologist to study the Luo of Kenya professionally,
undertaking pioneering sociological work with them (Campbell 2006; Morton and Oteyo …

This chapter considers a valid and reliable Sensitivity towards being the target of upward
comparison (STTUC) scale that may aid in assessing outperformer's experiences of STTUC …