Pia Rebello Britto
Biographic Data
| ID | 2200575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pia Rebello Britto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pia Rebello |
| FAMILY NAME | Britto |
| SIGNATURE | BRITTO P R |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Nations Children's Fund |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3561-0557 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Future of Parenting Programs
SYNOPSISThis article focuses on the demand side of parenting programs, in addition to the traditionally studied supply side and argues that a path to scale of parenting programs must align and equally acknowledge supply and demand side domains and characteristics, whereas historically they are addressed in silos. Evidence suggests that a core set of factors such as policy and contextual affordances and personal characteristics, skills, and motiva…
Effects of the Global Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pandemic on Early Childhood Development
Global research priorities to accelerate programming to improve early childhood development in the sustainable development era
BACKGROUND: Approximately 250 million children under the age of five in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) will not achieve their developmental potential due to poverty and stunting alone. Investments in programming to improve early childhood development (ECD) have the potential to disrupt the cycle of poverty and therefore should be prioritised. Support for ECD has increased in recent years. Nevertheless, donors and policies continue to neg…
Implementation Evaluation of the Mother‐Child Education Program Among Refugee and Other Vulnerable Communities in Lebanon
Despite the knowledge that quality early childhood development programs, including those that target parental knowledge and behaviors, are essential for ameliorating the negative effects of early-life adversity, robust analyses of their implementation and impact in highly vulnerable settings are scarce. To address this knowledge gap, we conducted a pilot wait-list randomized controlled trial (RCT) to assess the impact and the process of implement…
Steps Toward Peace and Violence Prevention Across Generations
This special issue of New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development features four review articles from authoritative leaders in the field. These articles highlight how far our field has come over the past five decades, as well as how much further effort is needed to refine, adapt, and implement - in a sustainable fashion - responsive parenting and nurturing care programs of proven value across the globe
Home- and center-based learning opportunities for preschoolers in low- and middle-income countries
Early childhood development
Children, Youth and Developmental Science in the 2015‐2030 Global Sustainable Development Goals
In September 2016, the member states of the United Nations completed the process of adopting and defi ning indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs; United Nations, 2015).Developed through a three-year, worldwide participatory process, these 17 goals and 169 targets represent a global consensus on the part of U.N. member nations towards an inclusive, sustainable world, centered around ensuring equity in all countries at a time of gr…
A road less travelled
Early childhood development (ECD) programmes, through effectiveness trials and increasingly through scaled-up initiatives, have demonstrated an impact on child, family and societal outcomes (Britto
Is Early Childhood Relevant to Peacebuilding
The general themes of early childhood and peacebuilding barely intersect, whether in scientific research, policy or practice. Yet recent studies emerging from different disciplines such as neurobio
No second chances? Early critical periods in human development
Special issue call for papers
An Exploration of Cultural Identity Patterns and the Family Context among Arab Muslim Young Adults in America
While many studies have explored cultural adaptation and development and its correlates among adult Arab immigrants to the United States (U.S.), little empirical work has focused on Arab youth who were raised in the U.S., particularly Arab Muslim young adults. The present study explores cultural identity patterns and the sociodemographic and family contexts of 150 Arab Muslim American young adults ages 18–25 who completed an Internet study. The p…
Maternal reading and teaching patterns
S This study explored the congruence in reading and teaching patterns of low‐income, young African American mothers while interacting with their preschool‐age children in their homes (N=126). Survey and standardized test data were collected on maternal education and language ability, and videotape data were collected, transcribed, and coded on shared book‐reading and puzzle‐solving sessions, using validated coding procedures. Two reading patterns…
Special Reviewers
The Role of Family Literacy Environments in Promoting Young Children's Emerging Literacy Skills
EDITORS' NOTES (Pia Rebello Britto, Jeanne Brooks--Gunn). 1. Emergent Literacy Is Emerging Knowledge of Written, Not Oral, Language (Victoria Purcell--Gates). Children's knowledge of the development of written, as opposed to oral, language is central to the concept of emergent literacy. 2. Parent--Child Interaction in Three Conversational Contexts: Variations in Style and Strategy (Catherine Crain--Thoreson, Michael P. Dahlin, Terris A. Powell). …
Concluding Comments
New directions in the understanding of family literacy environments and children's emerging literacy are discussed. Also presented are implications of these new directions for research and practice
Beyond Shared Book Reading
This chapter examines the associations between individual dimensions of the home literacy environment and specific emergent literacy skills in low-income preschoolers
An Exploration of Cultural Identity Patterns and the Family Context among Arab Muslim Young Adults in America
While many studies have explored cultural adaptation and development and its correlates among adult Arab immigrants to the United States (U.S.), little empirical work has focused on Arab youth who were raised in the U.S., particularly Arab Muslim young adults. The present study explores cultural identity patterns and the sociodemographic and family contexts of 150 Arab Muslim American young adults ages 18–25 who completed an Internet study. The p…
Home- and center-based learning opportunities for preschoolers in low- and middle-income countries
No second chances? Early critical periods in human development
Children, Youth and Developmental Science in the 2015‐2030 Global Sustainable Development Goals
In September 2016, the member states of the United Nations completed the process of adopting and defi ning indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs; United Nations, 2015).Developed through a three-year, worldwide participatory process, these 17 goals and 169 targets represent a global consensus on the part of U.N. member nations towards an inclusive, sustainable world, centered around ensuring equity in all countries at a time of gr…
The Future of Parenting Programs
SYNOPSISThis article focuses on the demand side of parenting programs, in addition to the traditionally studied supply side and argues that a path to scale of parenting programs must align and equally acknowledge supply and demand side domains and characteristics, whereas historically they are addressed in silos. Evidence suggests that a core set of factors such as policy and contextual affordances and personal characteristics, skills, and motiva…
Is Early Childhood Relevant to Peacebuilding
The general themes of early childhood and peacebuilding barely intersect, whether in scientific research, policy or practice. Yet recent studies emerging from different disciplines such as neurobio
Maternal reading and teaching patterns
S This study explored the congruence in reading and teaching patterns of low‐income, young African American mothers while interacting with their preschool‐age children in their homes (N=126). Survey and standardized test data were collected on maternal education and language ability, and videotape data were collected, transcribed, and coded on shared book‐reading and puzzle‐solving sessions, using validated coding procedures. Two reading patterns…
The Role of Family Literacy Environments in Promoting Young Children's Emerging Literacy Skills
EDITORS' NOTES (Pia Rebello Britto, Jeanne Brooks--Gunn). 1. Emergent Literacy Is Emerging Knowledge of Written, Not Oral, Language (Victoria Purcell--Gates). Children's knowledge of the development of written, as opposed to oral, language is central to the concept of emergent literacy. 2. Parent--Child Interaction in Three Conversational Contexts: Variations in Style and Strategy (Catherine Crain--Thoreson, Michael P. Dahlin, Terris A. Powell). …
Concluding Comments
New directions in the understanding of family literacy environments and children's emerging literacy are discussed. Also presented are implications of these new directions for research and practice
Beyond Shared Book Reading
This chapter examines the associations between individual dimensions of the home literacy environment and specific emergent literacy skills in low-income preschoolers
Special Reviewers
Maternal reading and teaching patterns
S This study explored the congruence in reading and teaching patterns of low‐income, young African American mothers while interacting with their preschool‐age children in their homes (N=126). Survey and standardized test data were collected on maternal education and language ability, and videotape data were collected, transcribed, and coded on shared book‐reading and puzzle‐solving sessions, using validated coding procedures. Two reading patterns…
An Exploration of Cultural Identity Patterns and the Family Context among Arab Muslim Young Adults in America
While many studies have explored cultural adaptation and development and its correlates among adult Arab immigrants to the United States (U.S.), little empirical work has focused on Arab youth who were raised in the U.S., particularly Arab Muslim young adults. The present study explores cultural identity patterns and the sociodemographic and family contexts of 150 Arab Muslim American young adults ages 18–25 who completed an Internet study. The p…
Special issue call for papers
Is Early Childhood Relevant to Peacebuilding
The general themes of early childhood and peacebuilding barely intersect, whether in scientific research, policy or practice. Yet recent studies emerging from different disciplines such as neurobio
No second chances? Early critical periods in human development
A road less travelled
Early childhood development (ECD) programmes, through effectiveness trials and increasingly through scaled-up initiatives, have demonstrated an impact on child, family and societal outcomes (Britto
Early childhood development
Children, Youth and Developmental Science in the 2015‐2030 Global Sustainable Development Goals
In September 2016, the member states of the United Nations completed the process of adopting and defi ning indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs; United Nations, 2015).Developed through a three-year, worldwide participatory process, these 17 goals and 169 targets represent a global consensus on the part of U.N. member nations towards an inclusive, sustainable world, centered around ensuring equity in all countries at a time of gr…
Steps Toward Peace and Violence Prevention Across Generations
This special issue of New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development features four review articles from authoritative leaders in the field. These articles highlight how far our field has come over the past five decades, as well as how much further effort is needed to refine, adapt, and implement - in a sustainable fashion - responsive parenting and nurturing care programs of proven value across the globe
Home- and center-based learning opportunities for preschoolers in low- and middle-income countries
Global research priorities to accelerate programming to improve early childhood development in the sustainable development era
BACKGROUND: Approximately 250 million children under the age of five in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) will not achieve their developmental potential due to poverty and stunting alone. Investments in programming to improve early childhood development (ECD) have the potential to disrupt the cycle of poverty and therefore should be prioritised. Support for ECD has increased in recent years. Nevertheless, donors and policies continue to neg…
Implementation Evaluation of the Mother‐Child Education Program Among Refugee and Other Vulnerable Communities in Lebanon
Despite the knowledge that quality early childhood development programs, including those that target parental knowledge and behaviors, are essential for ameliorating the negative effects of early-life adversity, robust analyses of their implementation and impact in highly vulnerable settings are scarce. To address this knowledge gap, we conducted a pilot wait-list randomized controlled trial (RCT) to assess the impact and the process of implement…
Effects of the Global Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pandemic on Early Childhood Development
The Future of Parenting Programs
SYNOPSISThis article focuses on the demand side of parenting programs, in addition to the traditionally studied supply side and argues that a path to scale of parenting programs must align and equally acknowledge supply and demand side domains and characteristics, whereas historically they are addressed in silos. Evidence suggests that a core set of factors such as policy and contextual affordances and personal characteristics, skills, and motiva…
Political science (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (9 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Geography (4 works)