Andrew Dawes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Dawes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Dawes |
| SIGNATURE | DAWES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7185-3049 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Adaptation and pilot testing of the Early Learning Outcome Measure (Elom) (4&5) Years Assessment tool in South African Sign Language
Early Childhood Development is a key national priority in South Africa which has developed the Early Learning Outcome Measure (ELOM 4&5) specifically designed to measure the progress of 4- and 5-year-old children across 5 domains of early childhood development. This age-validated, population-standardised instrument has been shown to have measurement equivalence and lack of bias across South Africa’s 11 official spoken languages. In 2023, South Af…
To What Extent Can Community-based Playgroup Programmes Targeting Low-income Children Improve Learning Outcomes Prior to Entering the Reception Year in South Africa? A Quasi-experimental Field Study
Research Findings: Community-based playgroups in low-and-middle-income countries increase access to early learning at lower cost than centers. However, evidence of effectiveness is limited. The effects of one, two, or three playgroup sessions per week on children’s performance on the Early Learning Outcome Measure (ELOM) (n = 112; baseline M = 55.32 months) were investigated using a quasi-experimental design. Data on children’s home learning envi…
Using Data Tools and Systems to Drive Change in Early Childhood Education for Disadvantaged Children in South Africa
In line with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.2, South Africa's National Development Plan commits to providing high-quality early childhood education to all children by 2030 to drive improved child outcomes. Prior to 2016, South Africa lacked reliable, locally standardised, valid, and cross-culturally fair assessment tools for measuring preschool quality and child outcomes, suitable for use at scale within a resource-constraine…
Are South African children on track for early learning? Findings from the South African Thrive By Five Index 2021 Survey
We report on a national South African multistage cluster sampling survey of early development in 5,222 children aged 50-59 months enrolled in preschool programmes. Children were assessed on the Early Learning Outcomes Measure (ELOM 4&5), the ELOM Social-Emotional Rating Scale, and linear growth (height-for-age), in the last quarter of 2021. ELOM 4&5 is standardised for South Africa and measures development in five domains: Gross Motor, and Fine M…
Commentary on Wessells and Kostelny
Center-based early childhood care and education program quality
A Geographical Profile of Child Deprivation in South Africa
What's Changed
The authors outline cross-sectional studies (across time and age) of the effects of the political changes in South Africa on the intergroup orientations of adolescents, as well as their orientations to the new democracy. The study was undertaken between 1992 (before the end of apartheid) and 1996 (after apartheid), with 14-year-old and 17-year-old high school students from formerly designated Black, Coloured, White and Indian population groups. P…
Tolerance and solidarity
Tolerance and solidarity are recognized as key elements in the United Nations Culture of Peace Declaration. The contributions of psychology to our understanding of the causes of intolerance and the promotion of both tolerance and solidarity are discussed by drawing on insights from the Costa Rica symposium and connecting more widely with the scholarly literature in social and peace psychology. Guided by theory and research, we examine the sources…
Child Care, Developmental Delay and Institutional Practice
Child care, developmental delay and institutional practice This research draws on Valsiner's (1987) individual socio- ecological approach to development, and Miller and Goodnow's (1995) concept of a cultural practice. It shows how institutions for children act as cultural settings that contain child-care practices that advance or retard children's development through the forms of social exchange and activities they promote. Formal assessments of …
A longitudinal study of smoking in year 7 and 8 students speaking English or a language other than English at home in Sydney, Australia
Despite the higher smoking prevalence among men with a non-English-speaking background, and the reported strong association between fathers' smoking status and smoking onset of their children, adolescents speaking a LOTE at home were significantly less likely to be smokers than their English-speaking counterparts. Thus, there would seem to be a delay of smoking onset among students speaking a LOTE at home. The smoking rates among respondents spea…
Catapulted Into Democracy
In this article, we explore the effects of the political transformations in South Africa on the orientations of adolescents to these changes. The study was conducted between 1992 and 1996. This period includes the first negotiations toward a new political dispensation for the country, the first democratic elections of April 1994, and the first few years of post‐apartheid democratic governance. Informed by generational and life span approaches, th…
Orientations to Child Management
Twenty teacher-counsellors and twenty principals from a socio-economic spectrum of white co-educational high schools in the Cape Peninsula participated in the study. A repertory grid comprising a set of child management situations to which subjects were required to respond in terms of a series of bipolar constructs reflecting child-centred or institutionally orientated problem-solving action was used. Consensus grids were compiled from the two sa…
Using personal construct theory in therapist training — A way of learning about countertransference
Politics and Mental Health
Clinical psychology in South Africa, with few exceptions, has been unresponsive to its socio-political context. Attempts by certain authors to make their work relevant to the South African context are examined. Their adherence to a non-critical, conservative ideology is suggested as a reason for the lack of a more powerful critical focus. It is argued that Apartheid (or the policy of racial segregation) adversely affects the mental well-being of …
Politics and Mental Health
Clinical psychology in South Africa, with few exceptions, has been unresponsive to its socio-political context. Attempts by certain authors to make their work relevant to the South African context are examined. Their adherence to a non-critical, conservative ideology is suggested as a reason for the lack of a more powerful critical focus. It is argued that Apartheid (or the policy of racial segregation) adversely affects the mental well-being of …
A Geographical Profile of Child Deprivation in South Africa
Catapulted Into Democracy
In this article, we explore the effects of the political transformations in South Africa on the orientations of adolescents to these changes. The study was conducted between 1992 and 1996. This period includes the first negotiations toward a new political dispensation for the country, the first democratic elections of April 1994, and the first few years of post‐apartheid democratic governance. Informed by generational and life span approaches, th…
What's Changed
The authors outline cross-sectional studies (across time and age) of the effects of the political changes in South Africa on the intergroup orientations of adolescents, as well as their orientations to the new democracy. The study was undertaken between 1992 (before the end of apartheid) and 1996 (after apartheid), with 14-year-old and 17-year-old high school students from formerly designated Black, Coloured, White and Indian population groups. P…
Tolerance and solidarity
Tolerance and solidarity are recognized as key elements in the United Nations Culture of Peace Declaration. The contributions of psychology to our understanding of the causes of intolerance and the promotion of both tolerance and solidarity are discussed by drawing on insights from the Costa Rica symposium and connecting more widely with the scholarly literature in social and peace psychology. Guided by theory and research, we examine the sources…
Orientations to Child Management
Twenty teacher-counsellors and twenty principals from a socio-economic spectrum of white co-educational high schools in the Cape Peninsula participated in the study. A repertory grid comprising a set of child management situations to which subjects were required to respond in terms of a series of bipolar constructs reflecting child-centred or institutionally orientated problem-solving action was used. Consensus grids were compiled from the two sa…
Center-based early childhood care and education program quality
Using personal construct theory in therapist training — A way of learning about countertransference
Politics and Mental Health
Clinical psychology in South Africa, with few exceptions, has been unresponsive to its socio-political context. Attempts by certain authors to make their work relevant to the South African context are examined. Their adherence to a non-critical, conservative ideology is suggested as a reason for the lack of a more powerful critical focus. It is argued that Apartheid (or the policy of racial segregation) adversely affects the mental well-being of …
Orientations to Child Management
Twenty teacher-counsellors and twenty principals from a socio-economic spectrum of white co-educational high schools in the Cape Peninsula participated in the study. A repertory grid comprising a set of child management situations to which subjects were required to respond in terms of a series of bipolar constructs reflecting child-centred or institutionally orientated problem-solving action was used. Consensus grids were compiled from the two sa…
A longitudinal study of smoking in year 7 and 8 students speaking English or a language other than English at home in Sydney, Australia
Despite the higher smoking prevalence among men with a non-English-speaking background, and the reported strong association between fathers' smoking status and smoking onset of their children, adolescents speaking a LOTE at home were significantly less likely to be smokers than their English-speaking counterparts. Thus, there would seem to be a delay of smoking onset among students speaking a LOTE at home. The smoking rates among respondents spea…
Catapulted Into Democracy
In this article, we explore the effects of the political transformations in South Africa on the orientations of adolescents to these changes. The study was conducted between 1992 and 1996. This period includes the first negotiations toward a new political dispensation for the country, the first democratic elections of April 1994, and the first few years of post‐apartheid democratic governance. Informed by generational and life span approaches, th…
Child Care, Developmental Delay and Institutional Practice
Child care, developmental delay and institutional practice This research draws on Valsiner's (1987) individual socio- ecological approach to development, and Miller and Goodnow's (1995) concept of a cultural practice. It shows how institutions for children act as cultural settings that contain child-care practices that advance or retard children's development through the forms of social exchange and activities they promote. Formal assessments of …
Tolerance and solidarity
Tolerance and solidarity are recognized as key elements in the United Nations Culture of Peace Declaration. The contributions of psychology to our understanding of the causes of intolerance and the promotion of both tolerance and solidarity are discussed by drawing on insights from the Costa Rica symposium and connecting more widely with the scholarly literature in social and peace psychology. Guided by theory and research, we examine the sources…
What's Changed
The authors outline cross-sectional studies (across time and age) of the effects of the political changes in South Africa on the intergroup orientations of adolescents, as well as their orientations to the new democracy. The study was undertaken between 1992 (before the end of apartheid) and 1996 (after apartheid), with 14-year-old and 17-year-old high school students from formerly designated Black, Coloured, White and Indian population groups. P…
A Geographical Profile of Child Deprivation in South Africa
Center-based early childhood care and education program quality
Commentary on Wessells and Kostelny
To What Extent Can Community-based Playgroup Programmes Targeting Low-income Children Improve Learning Outcomes Prior to Entering the Reception Year in South Africa? A Quasi-experimental Field Study
Research Findings: Community-based playgroups in low-and-middle-income countries increase access to early learning at lower cost than centers. However, evidence of effectiveness is limited. The effects of one, two, or three playgroup sessions per week on children’s performance on the Early Learning Outcome Measure (ELOM) (n = 112; baseline M = 55.32 months) were investigated using a quasi-experimental design. Data on children’s home learning envi…
Using Data Tools and Systems to Drive Change in Early Childhood Education for Disadvantaged Children in South Africa
In line with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.2, South Africa's National Development Plan commits to providing high-quality early childhood education to all children by 2030 to drive improved child outcomes. Prior to 2016, South Africa lacked reliable, locally standardised, valid, and cross-culturally fair assessment tools for measuring preschool quality and child outcomes, suitable for use at scale within a resource-constraine…
Are South African children on track for early learning? Findings from the South African Thrive By Five Index 2021 Survey
We report on a national South African multistage cluster sampling survey of early development in 5,222 children aged 50-59 months enrolled in preschool programmes. Children were assessed on the Early Learning Outcomes Measure (ELOM 4&5), the ELOM Social-Emotional Rating Scale, and linear growth (height-for-age), in the last quarter of 2021. ELOM 4&5 is standardised for South Africa and measures development in five domains: Gross Motor, and Fine M…
Adaptation and pilot testing of the Early Learning Outcome Measure (Elom) (4&5) Years Assessment tool in South African Sign Language
Early Childhood Development is a key national priority in South Africa which has developed the Early Learning Outcome Measure (ELOM 4&5) specifically designed to measure the progress of 4- and 5-year-old children across 5 domains of early childhood development. This age-validated, population-standardised instrument has been shown to have measurement equivalence and lack of bias across South Africa’s 11 official spoken languages. In 2023, South Af…
Psychology (14 works) · Demography (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Geography (4 works)