Learning Groups
Quantitative Evaluation Learning Group
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Aims
The aim of this Learning Group is to share knowledge and expertise in relation to the use of quantitative research methods in evaluating the effectiveness of early childhood programs seeking to promote respect for ethnic diversity.
Outputs
The Learning Group is currently preparing two Working Papers that will be made available via the Reports page of this website:
- The first paper will provide a comprehensive overview and critical appraisal of the differing methods used to measure young children's racial and ethnic attitudes, identities and intended behaviour.
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The second paper will provide a systematic review of the findings of existing outcome evaluations published into the effects of early childhood programs with the aim of identifying which approaches tend to be more effective in promoting respect for ethnic diversity and in which contexts.
LEARNING GROUP MEETINGS
Meeting 1- 22nd -23rd January 2009, Montreal
Meeting 2- 11th -18th May 2010, Jakarta, Indonesia
Membership
Frances Aboud (co-chair)
Frances is a professor of Psychology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Over the years, she has studied the development of prejudice as well as programs to reduce it. In this context, she has also studied cross-ethnic friendship and ethnic identity, along with name-calling and other forms of inter-group bullying. A second line of research is on early childhood care and education in developing countries, particularly Bangladesh, where she has helped to improve and evaluate preschool and parenting programs for rural children. She has a number of publications on these topics along with two books.
Colin Tredoux (co-chair)
Colin is Professor, and Head of Psychology, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His interests in Social Psychology include contact theory, and the micro-ecology of contact and segregation. He has published in a range of journals, including American Psychologist, South African Journal of Psychology, and Psychological Science. He is co-editor of a 2008 Blackwell monograph (with Wagner, Tropp and Finchilescu), Improving intergroup relations, and is guest co-editor of a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Social Issues. His collaborative work on the micro-ecology of contact, with John Dixon, Kevin Durrheim, and colleagues, is described in detail at www.contactecology.com/
Christia Brown
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
Christia Brown
Charlotte Cole
Joan Ganz Cooney Centre, Sesame Workshop, New York, USA
Charlotte Cole
Buhle Zuma
Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Buhle Zuma
Noraini Noor
Department of Psychology, International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Noraini Noor
Luigi Castelli
Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua, Italy
Luigi Castelli
Linda Tropp
Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Linda Tropp
Ulrike Niens
School of Education, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland