A5074755616- Children's Rights and Participation
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Child and Adolescent Health
University of Cape Town
2022-2025
Health care systems are social institutions simulating microcosms of wider societies where unequal distribution power and resources translate into inequities in health outcomes, experiences access to services. Growing research on participatory women's groups positively highlights the influence group-based wellbeing for women, their infants, families communities across different countries. With similarities ethos philosophies, group combines relational, facilitation clinical care, uniquely...
The recent Covid‐19 global health pandemic has negatively affected the political and economic development of communities around world. This article shares lessons from our multi‐country project Safe, Inclusive Participative Pedagogy: Improving Early Childhood Education in Fragile Contexts (UKRI GCRF) on how children Brazil, Eswatini, South Africa, Scotland have experienced effects pandemic. benefits having co‐authors various countries, bringing their own located knowledge to considerations...
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with further specification that children have access to pre‐primary education. As early (ECE) expanded worldwide, so concerns about ECE provision, including whether its pedagogy culturally meaningful contextually appropriate. While these issues are much debated in themselves, often missing key stakeholder...
The Constitution of the Republic South Africa 1996, and early childhood development policy, legislation regulations prioritise best interests child. United Nations Committee on Rights Child General Comment 7 provides guidance how should be applied for young children to protect their rights promote survival, protection, development, as well measures support assist parents others responsible realising children’s rights. ECD regulatory framework defines quality standards monitoring is...