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ECDVU is committed to developing and promoting information of value to ECD in the Majority World. This is accomplished through a combination of: A) providing brief descriptions of the ECDVU program; B) publishing articles, chapters and special issues addressing various facets of the program; C) sharing work produced by the students in the ECDVU program, such as major projects and theses from the three year Africa program; and D) making accessible internal and external evaluations of ECDVU program deliveries. All of the above mentioned publications are available through clicking on the resources noted below.
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A) BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS
- ECDVU: Leadership Promotion Capacity Building, Network Enhancement. This is the most recent document to be developed describing the ECDVU program (June, 2004). This six page brochure provides a broad overview of the African, the Middle East, and the Indigenous ECDVU programs with additional inserts providing data from the African ECDVU evaluation.
ECDVU: Leadership Promotion Capacity Building, Network Enhancement.pdf
(12 pages 476KB)
B) PUBLICATIONS
Jackson, L. and Pence, A. (2003). Building ECD leadership in Africa. Interaction, 17(3), pp. 30-31
Evans, J.L. and Pence, A.R. (2004). The Early Childhood Development Virtual University. Coordinators Notebook, 28, pp. 46-47.
Pence, A.R. and Marfo, K. (Eds.). (2004). Capacity building for early childhood education in Africa [Special Issue]. International Journal of Educational Policy, Research, and Practice, 5(3).
Pence, A.R. (2004). ECD policy development and implementation in Africa. UNESCO Early Childhood and Family Policy Series, #9. Paris: UNESCO
Pence, A.R. (2005). Worlds of ECD: Hearing and supporting other voices. In V. Pacini-Ketchabaw & A.R. Pence (Eds.), Early Childhood Education in Motion: The Reconceptualist Movement in Canada. Ottawa: Canadian Childcare Federation.
Schacter, L., Pence, A.R., Zuckernick, A. and Roberts, J. (2005). Distance learning in Africa: From brain drain to brain gain. In M. Beaudoin (Ed.) Perspectives on The Future of Higher Education in the Digital Age. Hauppauge N.Y.: Nova Science Publishers.
Schafer, J. and Pence, A.R. (2006). Exploring and promoting the value of indigenous kowledge in early childhood development in Africa. Journal of International Development, 2(3).
Garcia, M., Pence, A.R., and Evans, J.L. (Eds.). (2007). Africa's Future: Africa's Challenge - Early Childhood Care in Development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.
Pence, A.R. (2007). ECD and e-learning in Africa: The Early Childhood Development Virtual University program (ECDVU). E-Learning.
Pence, A.R. with Habtom, A. and Chalamanda, F. (2007). Promoting capacity in ECD - and beyond: Complementary strategies and the evolution of the ECDVU in Africa. In M. Garcia, A.R. Pence and J.L. Evans (Eds.), Africa's Future - Africa's Challenge.
Pence, A.R. and Marfo, K. (2008). Early childhood development in Africa: Interrogating constraints of prevailing knowledge bases. International Journal of Psychology, 1-10.
C) STUDENT PROJECTS
D) EVALUATIONS
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