Daniel Capistrano
Biographic Data
| ID | 95076 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Capistrano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Capistrano |
| SIGNATURE | CAPISTRANO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8157-5564 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Building Children’s Competencies for Educational Achievement Through Chores and Labor: A Longitudinal Study in Sierra Leone
This study investigates whether children’s work outside of school (manual work and domestic chores) positively impacts their educational outcomes, via the development of social and emotional resources. This challenges assumptions that child work is always detrimental to academic outcomes. The study is set in rural Sierra Leone and uses four waves of data from the Safe Learning Study (N = 3,118; female: 43%), a longitudinal intervention aimed at i…
El medioambiente como objeto político
Este artículo discute, a partir de una revisión teórica narrativa, las bases para el desarrollo de estudios de cultura política posnormal que permitan una mayor compresión del medioambiente como objeto político en América Latina. Para ello realizamos una reconstrucción histórica de los abordajes del medioambiente como objeto político y su llegada a la disciplina de la ciencia política. Mostramos cómo, a pesar de no existir una subárea propiamente…
The Covid-19 pandemic and children’s engagement with learning in rural Sierra Leone
The COVID-19 pandemic caused worldwide educational disruption. This paper addresses a gap in the literature relating to the impact of the pandemic on learning experiences of children in rural communities in the Global South, particularly in earlier years of schooling. Children in these communities are at considerable disadvantage in comparison to their urban peers due to poor school infrastructure and challenges in recruitment and retention of te…
Educational Mobility and Attitudes Towards Migration from an International Comparative Perspective
This work considers the role of intergenerational educational mobility in shaping attitudes towards immigration. Two substantive questions drive this work. First, does the experience of stagnant or downward educational mobility result in negative attitudes towards immigration? Second, are perceptions of immigration shaped by the relative importance of parental (i.e. origin) and one’s own (i.e. destination) level of education? We deploy six waves …
Picturing safety and danger: Children's perspectives in rural Sierra Leone
The question of dangers and safety in children's lives has become a matter of increasing concern. This paper aims to contribute to the discussion in this field and elaborate on children's experiences of risks and dangers in the context of chronic poverty. Drawing on the post‐humanism approach, we argue that children's conceptions of risks and dangers emerge through their active and mutual exchange with other human and non‐human beings such as riv…
I Guess We are from Very Different Backgrounds: Attitudes Towards Social Justice and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in European Societies
Developing a Social Evolutionary Measure of Child and Adolescent Hedonic and Eudaimonic Wellbeing in Rural Sierra Leone
The study establishes the validity of a new measure of child and adolescent hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing designed for international use and based on social evolutionary theory. The measure advances the fields of psychometrics and happiness studies by providing the first a-contextual assessment of both hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing that is suitable for use with children and adolescents. The Child and Adolescent Personal and Social Assessmen…
Assessing experiences with violence and peace in primary schools in Sierra Leone
Purpose This paper aims to discuss the construction of two composite indices to assess children’s experiences with violence and peace in primary schools in Sierra Leone. Design/methodology/approach The authors provide a conceptual framework based on the three dimensions of the violence index (direct, structural and cultural violence) and the three dimensions of the positive peace index (inclusion, citizenship and well-being). After that, this wor…
Statistical Innovation in the Global South: Mechanisms of Translation in Censuses of Brazil, Ecuador, Ghana and Sierra Leone
This article proposes a comparative socio-economic history of quantification in Ecuador, Brazil, Ghana and Sierra Leone. It narrows in on censuses in the Global South as sites of methodological and infrastructural innovation in the context of global circulations of model population data systems, methodological standards, and material infrastructures. Specifically, the authors ask which arrangements of actors, norms and settings are involved in th…
Power, agency and children’s time use in rural Sierra Leone
Children’s time allocation plays an important role in their well-being, education and future chances in life. This paper examines children’s time use in rural Sierra Leone in the context of dynamics of power. It analyses the ways in which children co-construct their patterns of time use and create their own temporal spaces within the boundaries of existing expectations and norms. Drawing on rich qualitative data we argue that children’s routines …
An empty bag cannot stand upright’: The nature of schooling costs in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is one of the poorest countries in the world with a literacy level of 51%. The government has oficially abolished school fees; however, families still have to cover various education-related costs for their children. This paper analyses the nature of the schooling costs in Sierra Leone. It shows that despite the abolition of school fees, schooling costs remain prohibitively high. Based on field research – which involved the observati…
Gendering childhood(s) and engagement with schooling in rural Sierra Leone
In spite of widespread initiatives to improve access to education for girls, substantive concerns remain. While there is a rich and growing body of literature on gendered experiences of school in majority world contexts, absent is a focus on how this intersects with children’s out of school lives. Further, research with children in rural communities is limited, including those who are in the earlier years of their schooling. This paper addresses …
Becoming 'brilliant: Generationing education and development in rural Sierra Leone
This paper explores the generationing of education and development in five villages in Northern Sierra Leone. Understood as 'fields' governed by power dynamics, we consider how the interactive 'fields' of generation, education and development coalesce, re/structuring adult and child 'being' and 'doing'. We explore the tensions that arise between transformation and preservation in the field in light of wider social, cultural and economic change, a…
Valores morais e de autoexpressão: Pós-Materialismo Em/Na Crise
Este artigo visa a veri car o impacto da mudança nas condições de existência material (sanitárias e econômicas) causada pela pandemia de covid-19 na estabilidade dos valores materialistas e pós-materialistas no Brasil. A hipótese, construída a partir da literatura e testada com os dados de duas ondas do projeto "Valores em Crise", é que tais valores deveriam ser estáveis na vida dos indivíduos e não mudariam no curto prazo. Porém, os resultados i…
Is Self-Expression Chic? Globalisation, Value Change and Convergence in Latin America
The literature concerning human values change, argues the main factor driving increasing levels of secularization and self-expression is the improvement of material conditions. In fact, studies succeeded to present evidence of the strong relationship between GDP and post-materialist attitudes at the national level. Still, in this study, we demonstrate this relationship is not as strong in Latin America. Based on the theory of mass-elite convergen…
Education and support for a culture of peace: A critical comparative analysis using survey data
In this article, we discuss the relationship between formal education and public support for a culture of peace, defined here as values and attitudes related to key aspects of peace, such as tolerance, respect and non-violence. For that, we analyzed individual and country-level data from the World Values Survey (WVS) arguing that such data provides relevant evidence to the field of peace studies, and can contribute to explore complex relationship…
Human Development and Social Support for State Authority in Brazil
Several studies have observed a syndrome of shifting values within different cultures over the past five decades. This work investigates whether these cultural changes have been followed by changes in individual attitudes regarding state authority in Brazil. Using data from the World Values Survey, we tested the hypotheses proposed by Ronald Inglehart that the increasing prevalence of self-expression and secular-rational values has been followed …
Valores políticos e a construção de sistemas públicos de saúde no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos
O artigo busca explorar a relação entre visões políticas predominantes na sociedade e as propostas de construção de um sistema nacional de saúde no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos. Segundo dados de surveys recentes, a opinião pública sobre o papel do governo na saúde pública difere consideravelmente entre brasileiros e norte-americanos. Essas opiniões estão intrinsecamente ligadas às características da cultura política desses dois países. Analisando …
O Papel do Estado e Cultura Política na Argentina e no Brasil
A opinião e a orientação de argentinos e brasileiros em relação à política e ao Estado têm mudado nos últimos vinte anos? Transformações sociais ocorridas nesse período sugerem que a cultura política nesses países experimentou alterações importantes. O presente artigotrabalho aborda esse tema com ênfase no apoio público à intervenção do Estado na economia. Os resultados da pesquisa corroboram a lógica de transformação na cultura política, mas apr…
Gendering childhood(s) and engagement with schooling in rural Sierra Leone
In spite of widespread initiatives to improve access to education for girls, substantive concerns remain. While there is a rich and growing body of literature on gendered experiences of school in majority world contexts, absent is a focus on how this intersects with children’s out of school lives. Further, research with children in rural communities is limited, including those who are in the earlier years of their schooling. This paper addresses …
Education and support for a culture of peace: A critical comparative analysis using survey data
In this article, we discuss the relationship between formal education and public support for a culture of peace, defined here as values and attitudes related to key aspects of peace, such as tolerance, respect and non-violence. For that, we analyzed individual and country-level data from the World Values Survey (WVS) arguing that such data provides relevant evidence to the field of peace studies, and can contribute to explore complex relationship…
I Guess We are from Very Different Backgrounds: Attitudes Towards Social Justice and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in European Societies
Assessing experiences with violence and peace in primary schools in Sierra Leone
Purpose This paper aims to discuss the construction of two composite indices to assess children’s experiences with violence and peace in primary schools in Sierra Leone. Design/methodology/approach The authors provide a conceptual framework based on the three dimensions of the violence index (direct, structural and cultural violence) and the three dimensions of the positive peace index (inclusion, citizenship and well-being). After that, this wor…
Statistical Innovation in the Global South: Mechanisms of Translation in Censuses of Brazil, Ecuador, Ghana and Sierra Leone
This article proposes a comparative socio-economic history of quantification in Ecuador, Brazil, Ghana and Sierra Leone. It narrows in on censuses in the Global South as sites of methodological and infrastructural innovation in the context of global circulations of model population data systems, methodological standards, and material infrastructures. Specifically, the authors ask which arrangements of actors, norms and settings are involved in th…
Becoming 'brilliant: Generationing education and development in rural Sierra Leone
This paper explores the generationing of education and development in five villages in Northern Sierra Leone. Understood as 'fields' governed by power dynamics, we consider how the interactive 'fields' of generation, education and development coalesce, re/structuring adult and child 'being' and 'doing'. We explore the tensions that arise between transformation and preservation in the field in light of wider social, cultural and economic change, a…
Human Development and Social Support for State Authority in Brazil
Several studies have observed a syndrome of shifting values within different cultures over the past five decades. This work investigates whether these cultural changes have been followed by changes in individual attitudes regarding state authority in Brazil. Using data from the World Values Survey, we tested the hypotheses proposed by Ronald Inglehart that the increasing prevalence of self-expression and secular-rational values has been followed …
O Papel do Estado e Cultura Política na Argentina e no Brasil
A opinião e a orientação de argentinos e brasileiros em relação à política e ao Estado têm mudado nos últimos vinte anos? Transformações sociais ocorridas nesse período sugerem que a cultura política nesses países experimentou alterações importantes. O presente artigotrabalho aborda esse tema com ênfase no apoio público à intervenção do Estado na economia. Os resultados da pesquisa corroboram a lógica de transformação na cultura política, mas apr…
Valores políticos e a construção de sistemas públicos de saúde no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos
O artigo busca explorar a relação entre visões políticas predominantes na sociedade e as propostas de construção de um sistema nacional de saúde no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos. Segundo dados de surveys recentes, a opinião pública sobre o papel do governo na saúde pública difere consideravelmente entre brasileiros e norte-americanos. Essas opiniões estão intrinsecamente ligadas às características da cultura política desses dois países. Analisando …
Human Development and Social Support for State Authority in Brazil
Several studies have observed a syndrome of shifting values within different cultures over the past five decades. This work investigates whether these cultural changes have been followed by changes in individual attitudes regarding state authority in Brazil. Using data from the World Values Survey, we tested the hypotheses proposed by Ronald Inglehart that the increasing prevalence of self-expression and secular-rational values has been followed …
Is Self-Expression Chic? Globalisation, Value Change and Convergence in Latin America
The literature concerning human values change, argues the main factor driving increasing levels of secularization and self-expression is the improvement of material conditions. In fact, studies succeeded to present evidence of the strong relationship between GDP and post-materialist attitudes at the national level. Still, in this study, we demonstrate this relationship is not as strong in Latin America. Based on the theory of mass-elite convergen…
Education and support for a culture of peace: A critical comparative analysis using survey data
In this article, we discuss the relationship between formal education and public support for a culture of peace, defined here as values and attitudes related to key aspects of peace, such as tolerance, respect and non-violence. For that, we analyzed individual and country-level data from the World Values Survey (WVS) arguing that such data provides relevant evidence to the field of peace studies, and can contribute to explore complex relationship…
Power, agency and children’s time use in rural Sierra Leone
Children’s time allocation plays an important role in their well-being, education and future chances in life. This paper examines children’s time use in rural Sierra Leone in the context of dynamics of power. It analyses the ways in which children co-construct their patterns of time use and create their own temporal spaces within the boundaries of existing expectations and norms. Drawing on rich qualitative data we argue that children’s routines …
An empty bag cannot stand upright’: The nature of schooling costs in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is one of the poorest countries in the world with a literacy level of 51%. The government has oficially abolished school fees; however, families still have to cover various education-related costs for their children. This paper analyses the nature of the schooling costs in Sierra Leone. It shows that despite the abolition of school fees, schooling costs remain prohibitively high. Based on field research – which involved the observati…
Gendering childhood(s) and engagement with schooling in rural Sierra Leone
In spite of widespread initiatives to improve access to education for girls, substantive concerns remain. While there is a rich and growing body of literature on gendered experiences of school in majority world contexts, absent is a focus on how this intersects with children’s out of school lives. Further, research with children in rural communities is limited, including those who are in the earlier years of their schooling. This paper addresses …
Becoming 'brilliant: Generationing education and development in rural Sierra Leone
This paper explores the generationing of education and development in five villages in Northern Sierra Leone. Understood as 'fields' governed by power dynamics, we consider how the interactive 'fields' of generation, education and development coalesce, re/structuring adult and child 'being' and 'doing'. We explore the tensions that arise between transformation and preservation in the field in light of wider social, cultural and economic change, a…
Valores morais e de autoexpressão: Pós-Materialismo Em/Na Crise
Este artigo visa a veri car o impacto da mudança nas condições de existência material (sanitárias e econômicas) causada pela pandemia de covid-19 na estabilidade dos valores materialistas e pós-materialistas no Brasil. A hipótese, construída a partir da literatura e testada com os dados de duas ondas do projeto "Valores em Crise", é que tais valores deveriam ser estáveis na vida dos indivíduos e não mudariam no curto prazo. Porém, os resultados i…
Developing a Social Evolutionary Measure of Child and Adolescent Hedonic and Eudaimonic Wellbeing in Rural Sierra Leone
The study establishes the validity of a new measure of child and adolescent hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing designed for international use and based on social evolutionary theory. The measure advances the fields of psychometrics and happiness studies by providing the first a-contextual assessment of both hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing that is suitable for use with children and adolescents. The Child and Adolescent Personal and Social Assessmen…
Assessing experiences with violence and peace in primary schools in Sierra Leone
Purpose This paper aims to discuss the construction of two composite indices to assess children’s experiences with violence and peace in primary schools in Sierra Leone. Design/methodology/approach The authors provide a conceptual framework based on the three dimensions of the violence index (direct, structural and cultural violence) and the three dimensions of the positive peace index (inclusion, citizenship and well-being). After that, this wor…
Statistical Innovation in the Global South: Mechanisms of Translation in Censuses of Brazil, Ecuador, Ghana and Sierra Leone
This article proposes a comparative socio-economic history of quantification in Ecuador, Brazil, Ghana and Sierra Leone. It narrows in on censuses in the Global South as sites of methodological and infrastructural innovation in the context of global circulations of model population data systems, methodological standards, and material infrastructures. Specifically, the authors ask which arrangements of actors, norms and settings are involved in th…
Educational Mobility and Attitudes Towards Migration from an International Comparative Perspective
This work considers the role of intergenerational educational mobility in shaping attitudes towards immigration. Two substantive questions drive this work. First, does the experience of stagnant or downward educational mobility result in negative attitudes towards immigration? Second, are perceptions of immigration shaped by the relative importance of parental (i.e. origin) and one’s own (i.e. destination) level of education? We deploy six waves …
Picturing safety and danger: Children's perspectives in rural Sierra Leone
The question of dangers and safety in children's lives has become a matter of increasing concern. This paper aims to contribute to the discussion in this field and elaborate on children's experiences of risks and dangers in the context of chronic poverty. Drawing on the post‐humanism approach, we argue that children's conceptions of risks and dangers emerge through their active and mutual exchange with other human and non‐human beings such as riv…
I Guess We are from Very Different Backgrounds: Attitudes Towards Social Justice and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in European Societies
The Covid-19 pandemic and children’s engagement with learning in rural Sierra Leone
The COVID-19 pandemic caused worldwide educational disruption. This paper addresses a gap in the literature relating to the impact of the pandemic on learning experiences of children in rural communities in the Global South, particularly in earlier years of schooling. Children in these communities are at considerable disadvantage in comparison to their urban peers due to poor school infrastructure and challenges in recruitment and retention of te…
Building Children’s Competencies for Educational Achievement Through Chores and Labor: A Longitudinal Study in Sierra Leone
This study investigates whether children’s work outside of school (manual work and domestic chores) positively impacts their educational outcomes, via the development of social and emotional resources. This challenges assumptions that child work is always detrimental to academic outcomes. The study is set in rural Sierra Leone and uses four waves of data from the Safe Learning Study (N = 3,118; female: 43%), a longitudinal intervention aimed at i…
El medioambiente como objeto político
Este artículo discute, a partir de una revisión teórica narrativa, las bases para el desarrollo de estudios de cultura política posnormal que permitan una mayor compresión del medioambiente como objeto político en América Latina. Para ello realizamos una reconstrucción histórica de los abordajes del medioambiente como objeto político y su llegada a la disciplina de la ciencia política. Mostramos cómo, a pesar de no existir una subárea propiamente…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Sierra leone (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Socioeconomics (7 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)