Early Childhood Development Caribbean - ERIC

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Early Childhood Development

47

Early childhood in the Caribbean

By Christine Barrow with Martin Ince

Cover: Toddler from Dominica. Photo: Peter de Ruiter Design: Valetti, vormgeving en communicatie, The Hague, The Netherlands Editing and proofreading: Green Ink (greenink.co.uk)

WORKING PAPERS IN

Early Childhood Development

47

Early childhood in the Caribbean

By Christine Barrow with Martin Ince

April 2008

Copyright ? 2008 by the Bernard van Leer Foundation, The Netherlands. The Bernard van Leer Foundation encourages the fair use of this material. Proper citation is requested. This publication may not be resold for profit.

The views expressed in this publication are those of the author and are not necessarily those of the Bernard van Leer Foundation.

About the author Christine Barrow is a social anthropologist and presently Professor of Social Development at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Research (SALISES), University of the West Indies (UWI) in Barbados. She was previously based at the Faculty of Social Sciences on the same campus where she was Head of the Department of Government, Sociology and Social Work. She also served as Deputy Principal at the Barbados Campus of UWI from 2002 to 2005. Her research interests and publications (books, articles and reports) are on Caribbean social development with special emphasis on family systems, child rights and development, gender ideologies and realities, and adolescent sexuality, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS.

Citation Barrow, C. 2008. Early childhood in the Caribbean. Working Paper 47. The Hague, The Netherlands: Bernard van Leer Foundation

This paper is a summary of a much fuller document by the author, Childhoods and family culture: Growing up outside, shifted or left behind?, to be published by Ian Randle Publishers, Jamaica, in 2008. The longer report contains the full scholarly apparatus including a wealth of references and more material locating this work in the context of social science research as a whole. Most importantly, it contains many direct quotes from the people of the four communities described in this paper, and others interviewed in the course of the work. This summary was written by Martin Ince, a freelance journalist based in London on behalf of Green Ink Publishing Services, UK.

ISSN 1383-7907 ISBN 978-90-6195-102-5

Contents

Acknowledgements

v

Executive summary

vii

Chapter 1: Introducing the study and the communities

1

Chapter 2: Early childhood, care and socialisation

11

Chapter 3: Family and the local environment for childhood

21

Chapter 4: The national setting for childhood

29

Chapter 5: Surviving poverty

39

Chapter 6: Motherhood, poverty and children's rights

49

Bibliography on early childhood, parenting, family and poverty in the Caribbean

53

(with special reference to Dominica and Trinidad and Tobago)

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