TY - UNPB
T1 - Health, Child Development and Education in Rwanda
T2 - Understanding and working with contextual complexity
AU - Abbott, Pamela
AU - Sapsford, Roger John
PY - 2023/4/10
Y1 - 2023/4/10
N2 - Children’s health, development and education cannot be handled separated; they form one process and are profoundly interrelated. This article considers how to ensure children’s physical and mental fitness for school and maintain it once they are there. Rwanda Is a case study of health and development issues which render children unreceptive to education. This is not news to Rwanda’s government, but until recently the donor community was not interested in supporting implementation. The story of Rwanda illustrates the need to think about changes of policy and practice in their context of structures and culture – how they interact and how they are facilitated or constrained by structures and by cultural understandings. To grasp what is going on and for successful implementation of policy, it is necessary to look at situations as a whole and consider human and governmental agency as real influences rather than just consequences of causal mechanisms.
AB - Children’s health, development and education cannot be handled separated; they form one process and are profoundly interrelated. This article considers how to ensure children’s physical and mental fitness for school and maintain it once they are there. Rwanda Is a case study of health and development issues which render children unreceptive to education. This is not news to Rwanda’s government, but until recently the donor community was not interested in supporting implementation. The story of Rwanda illustrates the need to think about changes of policy and practice in their context of structures and culture – how they interact and how they are facilitated or constrained by structures and by cultural understandings. To grasp what is going on and for successful implementation of policy, it is necessary to look at situations as a whole and consider human and governmental agency as real influences rather than just consequences of causal mechanisms.
KW - school health policy
KW - Educational attainment
KW - early child development
KW - stunting
KW - causal models
KW - critical realism
U2 - 10.20944/preprints202304.0154.v1
DO - 10.20944/preprints202304.0154.v1
M3 - Preprint
BT - Health, Child Development and Education in Rwanda
PB - MDPI
ER -