Poster #92 - Parental Ethnotheories About Children's Education in Brazil

• In Event: Poster Session 18

Abstract

The Video Interaction Project (VIP) is a health-based caregiver education intervention that is aimed to reduce poverty-related disparities in early child development and school readiness. This intervention was created, implemented, and studied in the United States, where it has been quite successful. The present study was carried out as part of a program to test the effectiveness of the VIP intervention in Brazil, where many children are raised in extreme poverty and are at increased risk of adverse effects. To assist in the VIP cultural context adaption, this study will look at Brazilian parental ethnotheories and practices related to their children's education, using measures previously developed for cross-cultural research.
The sample was collected from a Feasibility Study of the pilot implementation of the Video Interaction Project in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, in the southeast of Brazil. The sample currently consists of 15 caregiver-child dyads, from both middle-/high-SES and low SES families, with children between 0 and 5 years of age. This is an ongoing project and when concluded in October 2022, it will have 24 caregiver-child dyads. Caregivers were interviewed, using semi-structured interviews which were audio recorded; the interviews will be transcribed and coded in their original Brazilian Portuguese using Dedoose software.
Textual analysis will be conducted using thematic coding to find the overarching themes of Brazilian parental ethnotheories about children’s education. Data analysis will be completed by January 2023. The study results will identify the Brazilian parents’ beliefs about schools where they plan to or have enrolled their children, as well as their ethnotheories about their roles in their children’s learning.
The results of this study will be used in assessing how the VIP may need to be adapted to the Brazilian cultural context, with implications for the development of implementation strategies for early educational interventions in other low and middle-income contexts.

Authors

• Darlis Juvino, University of Connecticut
  Presenting Author

• Sara Harkness, University of Connecticut

• Charles M Super, University of Connecticut

• Saskia Dorien Mtendere Van Schaik, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

• Luciane Piccolo, NYU Grossman School of Medicine