Early childhood education and development in poor villages of Indonesia : strong foundations, later success / Amer Hasan, Marilou Hyson, Mae Chu Chang, editors
Early Childhood Research and Indonesia's Young Children ; Young Children in Indonesia's Low-Income Rural Communities: How Are They Doing and What Do They Need? ; Providing and Evaluating Services for Low-Income Young Children ; Insights from Indonesia: Implications for Policy and Practice / Amer Hasan, Marilou Hyson and Mae Chu Chang -- Data Sources and Their Representativeness -- The Influence of Parenting Practices and ECED Involvement on Developmental Outcomes -- The Districts: Selecting and Gaining Commitment -- Village Scoring Indicators -- Selecting Community Facilitators -- Participatory Planning Activities -- Tests of Evaluation Design -- Tests of Internal Validity --Tests of External Validity -- Descriptive Statistics for the Younger Cohort -- Descriptive Statistics for the Older Cohort -- Estimates of Impacts of ECED Project
Summary
Indonesia has begun to emerge into middle-income status, yet persistent poverty and stark inequalities continue to affect young children's development. This book tells the story of Indonesia's efforts to change the trajectory of development for poor children. Many countries have similar aims, but several aspects of what is reported here are especially valuable and perhaps unique. The study offers data on all aspects of health and development in a sample of rural young children, collected with internationally-validated measures, as well as household information, information about parenting pract
