Saturday, June 2, 2012

Research Around the World


Researches in the sub-Saharan area seems to relate to training or assessment to improve the quality of the care for children.  The surprising fact is that the quality level they are working on is still very basic such as survival rate, community health and orphanages.  The Australian website introduces the topics like what we see in America. They are for understanding children so that educators and caregivers can provide quality care and education. The surprising fact from a journal from this website is that one in five children living in low-income or single-parent families have mental health concerns. The European one has a lot of interesting and up-to-date topics such as children’s self-esteem in computer and learning and playing in different languages. One of the new insights here is that there are studies done about the challenges of children’s real participation. The noteworthy information/insight is that the interpretation of observation and interviews are always done by adults so what we think is true from the research results might not be true so we have to continue to study about children to understand children more accurately.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Ayako
    Great blog, It seems like great initiatives have been going on for a long time in trying to improve the quality of life in the sub Saharan, and they still seem to be lagging behind. My understanding of this is that there is so many people living there, that when we see or hear things going on it's to a small group, and some people who live in remote area, are just receiving help.
    I hope they keep up the good work in helping all children.

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  2. Ayako,
    Thank you for sharing. I also found it shocking that one in five children living in low-income or single-parent families have mental health concerns.

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