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Caribbean Child Development Centre

Address Main lines of research Staff profile and disciplines Networks

School of Continuing Studies, University of the West Indies

P.O.Box 141,
Mona,
Kingston 7,
Jamaica

Tel: (876) 927 1618
(876) 935 8353
(876) 935 8354
Fax: (876) 977 7433
Email: [email protected] [email protected]

Sian Williams
Acting Director
Janet Brown
Tutor Coordinator, on sabattical leave

 – Child Focus Project
-Profiles Project
– Sexual exploitation of children
– Social and political transformation of children’s lives
– Child Rights Universities
– Infant Care practices
– Childcare Promotion strategies in poor urban conditions in Jamaica
– Gender socialisation, parenting and fathering in the Caribbean
– Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development		 Academic staff:
– Senior lecturer
– Short term consultants as required

Disciplines:
– Social work
– Research methods
– Community development
– Child development
– Education
– Policy development
– Organisational development

Collaborating centres:
– Institute of Education, University of the West Indies
– Department of Child Health, University of the West Indies
– Centre for Early Childhood Education
– Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of the West Indies

Wider networks:
– Consultative Group on early childhood care, education and development
– Children’s Rights Universities Networks (CRUN)
– UNESCO Cooperation Centre for the Region
– Parenting Partners

Publications

Last updated: 24 June 1999