Socio-political conflicts in the Great Lakes Region of Africa have caused an upsurge in the refug... more Socio-political conflicts in the Great Lakes Region of Africa have caused an upsurge in the refugees who flee to other regions of the world for safety. Consequently, refugee camps have become common contexts of child growth and development owing to the forced movements of people from their original homes and countries into foreign and unfamiliar ecologies. This article reports part of the findings of a larger exploratory sequential study that explored the nature and quality of refugee immigrant caregivers’ childrearing practices at Tongogara Refugee Camp (TRC) in Zimbabwe. This study reports the resilience in childrearing among selected refugee immigrant caregivers resident at Tongogara Refugee Camp in Zimbabwe between 2013 and 2016. Eighteen (18) refugee mothers and thirteen (13) elders purposively sampled among refugees from DRC, Burundi and Rwanda participated in a qualitative study that used focus group discussions and key informant interviews to collect data. The main finding o...
The study investigated the existence of an explanatory conceptual framework for reasoning about t... more The study investigated the existence of an explanatory conceptual framework for reasoning about the mind called "belief-desire" psychology in eight-year-old, indigenous, schooled and unschooled Zimbabwean children. Two hundred children participated in the study. Three measures for assessing the presence of a theory of mind framed by belief-desire psychology were used to interview children. The measures were the Wellman and Bartsch mental states attribution, Wimmer and Pemer false-belief and Pemer, Leekam, and Wimmer unexpected change tasks. The study found that overall Zimbabwean children predominantly and competently use a belief-desire framework. They invoked the mental states of belief and desire to predict and explain every day, intentional, overt human actions. There were no statistical differences in performance between and within ethnic groups on two measures; the Wimmer and Perner, and the Pemer et. al. On the Wellman and Bartsch, there was a significant difference...
Socio-political conflicts in the Great Lakes Region of Africa have caused an upsurge in the refug... more Socio-political conflicts in the Great Lakes Region of Africa have caused an upsurge in the refugees who flee to other regions of the world for safety. Consequently, refugee camps have become common contexts of child growth and development owing to the forced movements of people from their original homes and countries into foreign and unfamiliar ecologies. This article reports part of the findings of a larger exploratory sequential study that explored the nature and quality of refugee immigrant caregivers’ childrearing practices at Tongogara Refugee Camp (TRC) in Zimbabwe. This study reports the resilience in childrearing among selected refugee immigrant caregivers resident at Tongogara Refugee Camp in Zimbabwe between 2013 and 2016. Eighteen (18) refugee mothers and thirteen (13) elders purposively sampled among refugees from DRC, Burundi and Rwanda participated in a qualitative study that used focus group discussions and key informant interviews to collect data. The main finding o...
The study investigated the existence of an explanatory conceptual framework for reasoning about t... more The study investigated the existence of an explanatory conceptual framework for reasoning about the mind called "belief-desire" psychology in eight-year-old, indigenous, schooled and unschooled Zimbabwean children. Two hundred children participated in the study. Three measures for assessing the presence of a theory of mind framed by belief-desire psychology were used to interview children. The measures were the Wellman and Bartsch mental states attribution, Wimmer and Pemer false-belief and Pemer, Leekam, and Wimmer unexpected change tasks. The study found that overall Zimbabwean children predominantly and competently use a belief-desire framework. They invoked the mental states of belief and desire to predict and explain every day, intentional, overt human actions. There were no statistical differences in performance between and within ethnic groups on two measures; the Wimmer and Perner, and the Pemer et. al. On the Wellman and Bartsch, there was a significant difference...
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