The Impact of Reverse Isolation on Early Childhood Development

1973 ◽  
Vol 22 (2-6) ◽  
pp. 300-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Simons ◽  
K. Köhle ◽  
U. Genscher ◽  
M. Dietrich
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 256-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Hlasny

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate opportunities for early childhood development (ECD) regarding children’s prenatal care, access to nutrition, health, parental care and cognitive-developmental activities, in 33 surveys from 13 countries. A total of 15 indicators for children’s opportunities are assessed including their typical level, inequality across demographic groups, and factors responsible. Design/methodology/approach Probability regressions estimate the effects of various household circumstances on children’s engagement in development opportunities. Dissimilarity indexes and human opportunity indexes are computed for each ECD dimension. To understand the impact of each household characteristic, Shorrocks-Shapley decomposition is performed. Findings ECD opportunities are poor but improving and becoming more equal across many countries. Progress is uneven. As may be expected, household wealth affects inequality for ECD opportunities facilitated by markets or governments, but not non-market opportunities. For preventive healthcare and preschool enrollment, access is deteriorating, reflecting low priority given to them in public policy. Children’s height falls behind in the first two years of children’s life, suggesting the need for targeted institutional interventions. Surprisingly, countries experiencing uprisings see conditions improving, while other Arab countries see them stagnating or deteriorating. Originality/value Local and national policy should tackle the identified opportunity gaps. Policymakers should allocate proper investment in medical and educational infrastructure and better coordinate support for disadvantaged families to ensure proper prenatal and ECD. International organizations should provide assistance with these programs.


2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Zahirul Islam ◽  
Jessika Johnston ◽  
Peter D. Sly

AbstractBackgroundThe urban environment presents significant health challenges for children, such as discouraging physical exercise and increasing exposure to air pollution, excessive noise and higher temperatures. Reducing exposures to these negative environmental factors can have great benefits on a child’s well-being and lower their risk of developing chronic diseases later in life. There is increasing evidence that suggests that the presence of urban green space can offer benefits to human health and well-being. While studies have reported the impact green space exposure has on the individual health outcomes of children, few have paid attention to the link between green space and the child’s development. This review aims to synthesise the evidence of the effect green space exposure has on early childhood development.ObjectivesTo explore the relationship between green space and early childhood development.MethodsAn online search was conducted using pre-identified keywords related to green space and early childhood development using search engines such as PubMed, MEDLINE, Web of Science, MeSH and PsycINFO. Peer-reviewed papers published in the past 10 years were included in this review. Papers were selected, extracted, analysed and interpreted based on Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines.ResultsFifty-one papers were identified, of which 28 were excluded due to duplications or irrelevance, yielding a total of 23 papers to be reviewed. Articles were categorised based on reported outcomes: perinatal health, physical health, psychological health and respiratory health. An increase in green space during pregnancy was associated with increased birth weight and a decreased risk for low birth weight (LBW). Further, higher greenness exposure during childhood was associated with increased levels of physical activity and a lower risk of obesity and neurodevelopmental issues such as inattentiveness. While green space exposure was negatively associated with wheezing and bronchitis in some cohorts, certain plant species increase asthmatic symptoms during childhood, indicating that plant species type is an important determinant.ConclusionThe extant literature on green space exposure and early childhood development is small. Regardless, the existing research provides promising insights into the benefits of green space exposure on children’s health and well-being in an ever-increasing urban world. Further research is needed on the causal relationships between both quantity and quality of green space to early childhood development.


Author(s):  
Nurkamelia Mukhtar AH ◽  
Abdul Munip

The entrepreneurial values such as independent, creativity, risk-taking ability, and responsibility play an important role in directing early childhood development, especially in the aspect of social-emotional, language, and cognitive. Khalifah kindergarten which is based on entrepreneurship, support the life skills development of children with several of excellent programs for example Market Day. This study is intended to know the reason of Khalifah Kindergarten in applying entrepreneurship program, the process and impact of the program on the aspects of early childhood development. The findings of this study are: first, Khalifah Kindergarten wants to achieve its mission in integrating entrepreneurial values in all aspects of early childhood development by introducing them to become Muslims entrepreneur. Second, the process of increasing the entrepreneurial values is implemented through Beyond Centre and Circle Time (BCCT) learning system, entrepreneurship activities such as market day, cooking classes, field trips,  angklung music as an extracurricular activity, and habituation through continuous interviews with the students. Third, the impact of entrepreneurial values can be proved in several aspects of development. In the social-emotional aspect, the children have empathy for others. In the cognitive aspect, the children have creative thinking. In an aspect of linguistic development, they become communicative, and in the physical-motor aspect, the children have the high spirit to produce a work.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-109
Author(s):  
Fajar Ariyanto ◽  
Octavian Dwi Tanto

This study aims to determine the interests of children from the use of picture storybooks assisted by the Microsoft PowerPoint application in the development of receptive language in early childhood with a research focus on the ability to listen to simple stories. The type of research used is descriptive with a quantitative approach. The data collection technique used in this study was a questionnaire with a Likert scale of 4, where the answer choices were on each question item. The number of questionnaire items used in this study amounted to 6 questions. The results of this study indicate that there are various responses about the impact of using picture storybooks. First, about the difficulty of applying online storybook media too early childhood, the results are 71.4% relatively easy to use, second, children's interest in listening to stories using the PowerPoint application results in 54% of children being very interested, the three PowerPoint applications being an alternative to PAUD learning today. Getting 38.1% results is quite alternative, the four stimulations of early childhood development can be given through impressions on the PowerPoint screen getting 60.3% results can be stimulated, the five children feel unfamiliar with the technology used to get 66.7% results do not feel foreign Regarding the media used, the six obstacles in learning to use PowerPoint media got results 66.7% answered that they did not experience problems in the implementation of storytelling using the powerpoint application.


SinkrOn ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-126
Author(s):  
Ita Dewi Sintawati ◽  
Widiarina Widiarina ◽  
Kartika Mariskhana

Youtube media is one of the social media for communication used by the community, not out of reach of children. The rapid development of information technology, of course, this has an influence on human life. Talking about life in humans, it cannot be separated from human behavior. Some psychologists say that children tend to fully absorb what they see, and children will learn from what they see. This can trigger creativity for young children. The creativity of each individual can be seen in terms of how he makes something he thinks of because he sees an object that already exists and then he innovates it into a new form. This attracted the attention of the author to identify and describe the impact of watching YouTube videos on the development of early childhood creativity. This type of research is based on developing phenomena, how much influence is brought about by technological advances on YouTube social media in the formation of children's behavior. The process of completing the goals to be achieved in this study is to provide information about recommendations for child development with positive creativity, making it easier to determine early childhood development by using the Decision Tree Algorithm C4,5 method. The problem in this study is that early childhood imaginations are higher and will be affected by streaming video ads on YouTube. The results showed that children aged 3 and 4 years often watched, while children aged 5 and 6 years did not watch often, so the role of parents was more dominant in supervising children aged 3 and 4 years.


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