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(IDRC - IDRIS DATA BASE) [Project value: Quoted in Canadian dollars not deflated]
Early Child-Mother Interaction (Venezuela)
This project will contribute to the solution of the very low achievement
rates and high failure rates found in Venezuelan children of low
socioeconomic status during their first years of primary school.
Its main purpose is to develop an educational intervention strategy
addressed to raise both the quantity and the quality of the interaction
between mothers and children from low socioeconomic strata.
This strategy will consist of home visits and interviews with the
mothers, conducted by trained community promoters who will use a guide,
prepared during the project, to train mothers on early interaction
practices. Specifically, this project will describe the socio-demographic
characteristics of a sample of mothers from marginal urban areas
of Caracas and of their newborn children; evaluate the socio-psychological
development of these children, and the emotional well-being, self-esteem,
motivation, and perceptions of the mothers; develop a video filming
strategy; and design an intervention strategy, and a guide for training
and dissemination of the proposed intervention.
http://www.unimet.edu.ve/investigacion/cendif/
Education for Child Development in Peru
This project will examine the factors that condition child development
in poor urban communities in Lima during the first and second
grades of schooling; and evaluate a methodology for a selective educational
intervention addressed to upgrade school performance and socio‑emotional
development. The research will include the design, preparation, and
application of instruments and procedures for systematic observation,
measurement, and evaluation of behaviours, opinions, attitudes, and
abilities of children, teachers, and parents. The research
results will be delivered to the teachers, officials of the Ministry
of Education, and parents and communal organizations through meetings,
seminars, workshops, and printed information. The expected impact
is a better understanding of the main problems of early child development,
and the introduction of mechanisms to improve the school system.
Fertility in Argentina : Facts
and Ideas
This project will produce baseline information on fertility in Argentina
and on methodology for the non conventional analysis of census data.
It will generate knowledge about nuptiality and fertility in the country,
necessary for the formulation of population policies which take into
account the heterogeneity of behaviour in different social and regional
strata, and provide appropriate information needed by the state agencies
in charge of the formulation and implementation of population policies.
Specifically, it will examine nuptiality; analyse marital fertility
patterns and non-marital fertility patterns; and examine the interrelations
between nuptiality patterns and fertility in different social and regional
strata. The basic data will come from the "Permanent file of household
data" which was the result of a reprocessing of the 1980 national population
census conducted in 1986 and 1987 at the Consejo Federal de Inversiones
de la rep. Argentina (CFI). The research results will be disseminated
through seminars, training, courses, and activities at the community
level.
Educational Research for Development
(Peru)
This project will address educational problems in Peru, and produce
specific proposals for research and training activities. The objectives
are to elaborate diagnoses of education problems in four selected areas
at the national level. These areas are the educational system;
the structure of the educational sector; the development of teaching
staff; and educational innovations. Also, priorities for educational
research and training will be identified. The research activities
will be based on consultancies, workshops, and inventories of existing
data and human resources. The project's results will be a number
of publications and inventories; the identification of resources for
educational research; training and research proposals; and the integration
of an interdisciplinary research group at the Pontificia Universidad
Catolica del Peru.
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