The Assemblies of God (AG) in Europe, specifically in Spain, currently struggles to reach families from a secular background. This study seeks to develop a description of the main competencies of children’s ministry needed to empower the Spanish Assemblies of God to evangelize a…
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This dissertation questions the making of the Israeli distinction between Arabs and Jews through the eyes of 3-6 year old children in a bilingual preschool program in the city of Be'er Sheva. The primary method used is a year-long ethnography of the school, consisting of partici…
Young Ladakhis experience markedly different childhoods from those of their parents and previous generations. In this rural region of the western Himalayas, a transition has occurred since the 1990s wherein education is now widely supported among Ladakhis as a priority for child…
Increased immigration finds children in a quandary to develop an identity consolidating their multiple locales and cultures. Additionally, the internet is highly integrated into children's lives and plays a consequential role in their identity formation processes. "Local culture…
In this project, I analyze 289 essays submitted to the Toy and Miniature Museum of Kansas City (TMM) as part of their 2007 “What Does it Mean to be an American Girl?” exhibit. Inspired by-- and anchored with-- the fictional protagonists of the wildly popular American Girls Colle…
Iranian immigrants are one of the least studied ethnic groups in psychology, despite being a rather large population (Hojat et al., 2000; Saedi, 2010). Only a handful of studies examining Iranian immigrants exist, and even fewer have examined Iranian children. No prior studies h…
To achieve economic development, regional authorities have to address issues that relate to climate change, efficient information flow in the market place, and health care. This dissertation presents three essays on current issues of concern to economic development in Africa. Cl…
A small-scale ethnographic case study of young children's learning from television in southern Illinois provides understanding about the frameworks used for interpreting media use in family life. The research consisted of in-home interviews about patterns of using the media, obs…
Scholars who have been studying young people's environments suggest that cultivating people's attachment to places is essential for healthy development of children. However, there is a lack of empirically based information regarding young children's (ages 9-11) attachment to pub…
Diarrheal diseases are still a leading cause of child mortality in less developed countries. In the past three decades, in an effort to reduce the transmission of diarrheal diseases, millions of tubewells have been installed as a way to provide safe drinking water in Bangladesh.…
Background- The prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder is on the rise, and previous studies have shown that children with Down syndrome are at a higher risk for Autism compared to the general population. Prior studies have reported various risk factors associated with Autism Spe…
This dissertation focuses on low-income rural-urban migrant children and their families in Bangladesh, living in a severe poverty-stricken environment in the capital city, Dhaka. Specifically, it deals with the dilemma of so-called non-formal primary education (NFPE) programs ai…
This dissertation is a quantitative investigation of father involvement among unmarried, non-resident fathers, and seeks to uncover the factors that keep them engaged in the parenting process over time using data from the Fragile Families and Child Well Being Study. Contrasting …
Investing in nutrition is desirable in itself. Adequate nutrition is essential for the proper growth and development of individuals and partly determines the quality of life and well-being of individuals. But there is also an economic rationale for investing in nutrition. Nutrit…
School psychologists in Israel have recently been mandated to become more involved in the assessment of preschool children. At the present time, no standardized developmental screening test for preschool children exists in Israel. The purpose of this study was to validate and ev…
In Syria, 3.5 million are classified as rural poor. Rural women and children, suffer the most from poverty and its physical and social deprivations. A study compared differences in child growth and nutrition in three rural livelihood groups: a ‘barley-livestock’ group, an ‘olive…
Taking my cue from the general theory that art makes an important contribution to childhood education and learning, I investigated, in Bhutanese schools, why children make art, what they learn through art making, and the role of art making. I talked to pre-primary through grade …
In this dissertation I address two important aspects of the process governing the intrahousehold allocation of resources in child welfare: the parental decision process that underlies the distribution of resources among individuals, and the hypothesis that mothers have stronger …
This study investigated relationships among the severity of symptoms of PTSD, emotional intelligence, and gender differences in refugee children from the Middle East after their exposure to war in their native countries (Iraq, Lebanon, or Palestine). Participants were 17 male an…