Kenji Kitamura
Biographic Data
| ID | 4100661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenji Kitamura |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenji |
| FAMILY NAME | Kitamura |
| SIGNATURE | KITAMURA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kanazawa University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9577-1008 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Examining trajectories of children’s social–emotional development across cultures.
at baseline = 7.61 years; 50% female) living in Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, and Vietnam to describe children's growth in six social-emotional skills across the first 3 years of formal schooling (i.e., Grades 1-3). For the majority of sites and skills examined, we found annual improvements of 0.04-0.25 standard deviations in children's interpersonal (e.g., relationships and interpersonal negotiation) and intrapersonal social-emotional skills (e.g., crea…
Concurrent validity of scores from phone-based caregiver reports on early childhood development
Exploring multidimensional approaches to learning during early childhood in Ghana
School-Based Early Childhood Education and Children’s Development in Urban Nepal
Research Findings: Despite the prevalence of integrating early childhood education (ECE) into formal schooling, there is limited evidence on how school-based ECE affects children compared to other types of ECE, particularly in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). Therefore, this study examined school-based ECE programs compared with independent ECE programs in an urban region in Nepal. The study employed weighting estimation approaches, using…
Being re-connected with Minoru Hokari
Any researcher working with Indigenous and other communities will have to engage with questions of how to deal with the realities of the communities as well as the realities of conducting the research.This essay reviews the personal history and approach of Minoru Hokari, a field researcher who studied the oral history of Aboriginal people in Australia.His writings at different stages of his life evidence initial struggles with and subsequent adap…
Participatory evaluation of community-university collaboration programs
This paper reports on a case study of a participatory evaluation of community-university collaboration in the Noto region of Japan, comprising capacity development and research programs. By modifying the Most Significant Change (MSC) technique, we designed our own methods using the "Horizontal MSC" technique to address the lack of a mechanism to collect and share the views of those engaged in the program implementation. The study found the Horizo…
Common property protected areas
Common property protected areas
Participatory evaluation of community-university collaboration programs
This paper reports on a case study of a participatory evaluation of community-university collaboration in the Noto region of Japan, comprising capacity development and research programs. By modifying the Most Significant Change (MSC) technique, we designed our own methods using the "Horizontal MSC" technique to address the lack of a mechanism to collect and share the views of those engaged in the program implementation. The study found the Horizo…
Common property protected areas
Being re-connected with Minoru Hokari
Any researcher working with Indigenous and other communities will have to engage with questions of how to deal with the realities of the communities as well as the realities of conducting the research.This essay reviews the personal history and approach of Minoru Hokari, a field researcher who studied the oral history of Aboriginal people in Australia.His writings at different stages of his life evidence initial struggles with and subsequent adap…
Participatory evaluation of community-university collaboration programs
This paper reports on a case study of a participatory evaluation of community-university collaboration in the Noto region of Japan, comprising capacity development and research programs. By modifying the Most Significant Change (MSC) technique, we designed our own methods using the "Horizontal MSC" technique to address the lack of a mechanism to collect and share the views of those engaged in the program implementation. The study found the Horizo…
School-Based Early Childhood Education and Children’s Development in Urban Nepal
Research Findings: Despite the prevalence of integrating early childhood education (ECE) into formal schooling, there is limited evidence on how school-based ECE affects children compared to other types of ECE, particularly in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). Therefore, this study examined school-based ECE programs compared with independent ECE programs in an urban region in Nepal. The study employed weighting estimation approaches, using…
Concurrent validity of scores from phone-based caregiver reports on early childhood development
Exploring multidimensional approaches to learning during early childhood in Ghana
Examining trajectories of children’s social–emotional development across cultures.
at baseline = 7.61 years; 50% female) living in Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, and Vietnam to describe children's growth in six social-emotional skills across the first 3 years of formal schooling (i.e., Grades 1-3). For the majority of sites and skills examined, we found annual improvements of 0.04-0.25 standard deviations in children's interpersonal (e.g., relationships and interpersonal negotiation) and intrapersonal social-emotional skills (e.g., crea…
Child development (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Early childhood (3 works) · Early childhood education (3 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Childhood development (2 works) · Environmental planning (2 works)