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Child development in Africa

Index Child development in Africa

Child development in Africa addresses the variables and social changes that occur in African children from infancy through adolescence. [1]

23 relations: Adolescence, Cameroon, Chewa people, Child development, Dropping out, Early childhood education, Education in Africa, Health education, Infant, Kenya, Kisii people, Languages of Africa, Lifelong learning, Nso people, Ontogeny, Oral tradition, Proverb, Senegal, Tumbuka people, Uganda, Western culture, Wolof people, Zambia.

Adolescence

AdolescenceMacmillan Dictionary for Students Macmillan, Pan Ltd.

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Cameroon

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Chewa people

The Chewa are a Bantu people of central and southern Africa and the largest ethnic group in Malawi.

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Child development

Child development entails the biological, psychological and emotional changes that occur in human beings between birth and the end of adolescence, as the individual progresses from dependency to increasing autonomy.

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Dropping out

Dropping out means leaving high school, college, university or another group for practical reasons, necessities, or disillusionment with the system from which the individual in question leaves.

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Early childhood education

Early childhood education (ECE; also nursery education) is a branch of education theory which relates to the teaching of older children (formally and informally) up until the age of about eighteen (birth to Grade 2).

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Education in Africa

Education in Africa is governed by the ministries of education in each country.

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Health education

Health education is a profession of educating people about health.

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Infant

An infant (from the Latin word infans, meaning "unable to speak" or "speechless") is the more formal or specialised synonym for "baby", the very young offspring of a human.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa with its capital and largest city in Nairobi.

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Kisii people

The Kisii (also known as Abagusii) is a community of Bantu people who inhabit two counties: Kisii (formerly Kisii District) and Nyamira in Nyanza Province, Western Kenya.

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Languages of Africa

The languages of Africa are divided into six major language families.

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Lifelong learning

Lifelong learning is the "ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated"Department of Education and Science (2000).

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Nso people

The Nso are a people of the Bamenda Grassfields in the Northwest Region of Cameroon.

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Ontogeny

Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origination and development of an organism, usually from the time of fertilization of the egg to the organism's mature form—although the term can be used to refer to the study of the entirety of an organism's lifespan.

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Oral tradition

Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication where in knowledge, art, ideas and cultural material is received, preserved and transmitted orally from one generation to another.

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Proverb

A proverb (from proverbium) is a simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience.

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Senegal

Senegal (Sénégal), officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country in West Africa.

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Tumbuka people

The Tumbuka, also called Tumboka, Kamanga, Batumbuka, Matumbuka, is an ethnic group found in Northern Malawi, Eastern Zambia and Southern Tanzania.

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Uganda

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda (Jamhuri ya Uganda), is a landlocked country in East Africa.

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Western culture

Western culture, sometimes equated with Western civilization, Occidental culture, the Western world, Western society, European civilization,is a term used very broadly to refer to a heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems and specific artifacts and technologies that have some origin or association with Europe.

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Wolof people

The Wolof people are a West African ethnic group found in northwestern Senegal, The Gambia and southwestern coastal Mauritania.

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Zambia

Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in south-central Africa, (although some sources prefer to consider it part of the region of east Africa) neighbouring the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_development_in_Africa

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