Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
A Qualitative Assessment of Community Acceptability and Use of a Locally Developed Children’s Book to Increase Shared Reading and Parent-Child Interactions in Rural Zambia
Originally published 2023-04-27 · Annals of Global Health
Ubiquity Press · DOI 10.5334/aogh.3920 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Collaboration
What makes a story feel like something a caregiver and child can share at home?
Caregivers discuss how local-language stories can become a basis for talking and reading together before formal schooling.
Who was studied?
117 women in rural Zambia participated in 15 focus groups about a locally developed children's book.
Age / stage: Children before entering Grade 1
Read with three questions
- How did local language and familiar settings enter the caregivers' accounts?
- How did the researchers move from individual accounts to their interpretation?
- How could the setting change which contributions from children or caregivers an observer sees?
Keep the limits in view
The accounts document experiences in the circumstances studied. They cannot establish how common an experience is in the wider population or measure an intervention effect.
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Jeanette L Kaiser; Thandiwe Ngoma; Peter C Rockers; Günther Fink; Allison Juntunen; Davidson H Hamer; Ben Chirwa; Nancy A Scott (2023). A Qualitative Assessment of Community Acceptability and Use of a Locally Developed Children’s Book to Increase Shared Reading and Parent-Child Interactions in Rural Zambia Annals of Global Health. https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3920
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