Robert Serpell
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Nicholas Serpell is a Zambian citizen and Professor of Psychology at the University of Zambia. From 2003 to 2006 he was Vice-Chancellor of the University. He also serves as the current Chancellor of Eden University in Lusaka, Zambia.
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- International Preferences in Selecting Mates (1990) (583)
- The Significance of Schooling: Life-Journeys in an African Society (2010) (286)
- How specific are perceptual skills? A cross-cultural study of pattern reproduction. (1979) (211)
- Parents' Interactions with Their First-Grade Children During Storybook Reading and Relations with Subsequent Home Reading Activity and Reading Achievement (2001) (187)
- Social Responsibility as a Dimension of Intelligence, and as an Educational Goal: Insights From Programmatic Research in an African Society (2011) (106)
- The effect of using a mobile literacy game to improve literacy levels of grade one students in Zambian schools (2014) (96)
- Parental Beliefs about Ways to Help Children Learn to Read: The Impact of an Entertainment or a Skills Perspective (1997) (91)
- Becoming Literate in the City: The Baltimore Early Childhood Project (1958) (91)
- Intimate culture of families in the early socialization of literacy. (2002) (81)
- Performance on a Sorting Task. A Cross-Cultural Experiment (1971) (66)
- GraphoGame – a catalyst for multi-level promotion of literacy in diverse contexts (2015) (62)
- THE SKILL OF PICTORIAL PERCEPTION: AN INTERPRETATION OF CROSS‐CULTURAL EVIDENCE (1980) (56)
- The Significance Of Schooling (1993) (55)
- Culture's influence on behaviour (1976) (53)
- Bridging between orthodox western higher educational practices and an African sociocultural context (2007) (52)
- Intelligence and culture (2004) (47)
- Critical Issues Literacy Connections between School and Home: How Should We Evaluate Them? (1997) (44)
- Developmental assessment, cultural context, gender, and schooling in Zambia. (2008) (35)
- Early educational foundations for the development of civic responsibility: an African experience. (2011) (35)
- Discrimination of orientation by Zambian children. (1971) (34)
- Cultural Dimensions of Cognition: A Multiplex, Dynamic System of Constraints and Possibilities (1994) (34)
- Standardization of the Panga Munthu Test--A Nonverbal Cognitive Test Developed in Zambia. (1998) (33)
- Mental Retardation in African Countries: Conceptualization, Services, and Research (1993) (32)
- Assessing competencies in reading and mathematics in Zambian children. (2009) (32)
- Aspects of intelligence in a developing country. (1974) (30)
- Dimensionality and the Development of Cognitive Assessments for Children in Sub-Saharan Africa (2016) (27)
- Cultural Dimensions of Literacy Promotion and Schooling (2001) (25)
- Commentary: The Impact of Psychology on Third World Development (1984) (23)
- Research on Cognitive Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (1984) (23)
- Contextual analysis of home environment factors influencing the acquisition of early reading skills in Zambian families (2014) (23)
- Basic Education for Children with Special Needs in Zambia (2011) (21)
- Do neuropsychological test norms from African Americans in the United States generalize to a Zambian population? (2016) (20)
- Language in Zambia (1971) (20)
- PROMOTION OF LITERACY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: GOALS AND PROSPECTS OF CAPOLSA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA (2014) (19)
- Cultural Differences in Attentional Preference for Colour Over Form (1969) (18)
- Contextual Responsiveness: An Enduring Challenge for Educational Assessment in Africa (2016) (18)
- Participatory Appropriation and the Cultivation of Nurturance: A Case Study of African Primary Health Science Curriculum Development (2008) (18)
- Preference for Specific Orientation of Abstract Shapes among Zambian Children (1971) (18)
- The Cultural Practice of Intelligence Testing: Problems of International Export. (2004) (17)
- Use of Jessor's Theoretical Framework of Adolescent Risk Behavior in Ethiopia: Implications for HIV/AIDS Prevention (2004) (16)
- The influence of language, education and culture on attentional preference between colour and form (1969) (15)
- Design and validation of assessment tests for young children in Zambia. (2014) (15)
- LINGUISTIC FLEXIBILITY IN URBAN ZAMBIAN SCHOOLCHILDREN * (1980) (14)
- The Embeddedness of Human Development within Sociocultural Context: Pedagogical, and Political Implications (2002) (14)
- How the Study of Cognitive Growth Can Benefit From a Cultural Lens (2017) (14)
- University students' perspective of sexual harassment: A case study at the University of Zambia (2010) (14)
- The Impact of Psychology on Third World Development (1997) (14)
- Testing the application of a Western scientific theory of AIDS risk behavior among adolescents in Ethiopia. (2000) (13)
- Some growth points in African child development research. (2014) (13)
- Negotiating a fusion of horizons: A process view of cultural validation in developmental psychology (1994) (13)
- Participatory Appropriation of Health Science and Technology: A Case Study of Innovation in Basic Education in a Rural District of Zambia (1998) (13)
- The Early Childhood Project: A 5-Year Longitudinal Investigation of Children’s Literacy Development in Sociocultural Context (2010) (13)
- The Cultural Construction of Intelligence (12)
- Specialized Centres and the Local Home Community: Children with Disabilities Need Them Both. (1986) (12)
- Assessment Criteria for Severe Intellectual Disability in Various Cultural Settings (1988) (11)
- Growth of Communicative Competence in a Dynamic African Context: Challenges for Developmental Assessment (2014) (10)
- African Socialization Values and Nonformal Educational Practices: Child Development, Parental Beliefs, and Educational Innovation in Rural Zambia (2015) (10)
- A Five-Year Comparison of Actual and Recommended Parental Practices for Promoting Children's Literacy Development. (1999) (9)
- Early Intervention in Third World Countries (1991) (9)
- Optimizing the Developmental Consequences of Education: Reflections on Issues Raised by Michael Cole (2005) (9)
- Using a phone-based learning tool as an instructional resource for initial literacy learning in rural African families (2020) (8)
- Multiple Perspectives and Constraints on Progressive Social Change: A Commentary (2014) (8)
- Opportunities and constraints for research on education and human development in Africa: Focus on assessment and special education (1999) (7)
- Situated understanding of human development in Africa: Systematic inquiries at the nexus of psychology, social science and history (2018) (7)
- Ensuring sufficient literacy practice with tablet technology in Zambian schools (2015) (6)
- Negotiating the Middle Ground Between the Ostensible and Shared Horizons: A Dynamic Approach to Cross-Cultural Communication about Human Development (2006) (6)
- Some long-standing and emerging research lines in Africa. (2014) (6)
- Sexual harassment in academia - perception understanding and reporting of sexual harassment in a Southern African University. (2011) (6)
- Some Developments in Zambia since 1971 1 (2017) (5)
- A Comparative Analysis of Teacher Ethnotheories. (1998) (5)
- Challenging western hegemony through systematic study of cultural diversity: an undergraduate course on child development and culture (2008) (5)
- Child development in Africa : views from inside (2014) (5)
- Selective attention and interference between first and second languages (1968) (5)
- Parental Ideas about Development and Socialization of Children on the Threshold of Schooling. Reading Research Report No. 78. (1997) (4)
- Perspectivist Challenges for ECD Intervention in Africa (2018) (4)
- Early childhood education quality indicators: Exploring the landscape of an African community perspective (2019) (4)
- Culture-Sensitive Communication in Applied Developmental Research (2021) (4)
- Sociocultural psychology: Situated theory as a bridge between psychology, history, and educational practices (1995) (4)
- Parental involvement and learners’ performance in rural basic schools of Zambia (2020) (3)
- Introduction to the special section by the guest editor (2019) (3)
- Literacy and Child Development in a Contemporary African Society (2020) (3)
- Application of Research Evidence in Policy Formulation to Enhance Child Development Opportunities in Zambia (2018) (3)
- Participatory Appropriation of Health Science by Primary School Students in Rural Zambia. (1996) (3)
- Educational Alternatives to Schooling in Zambia. (1996) (2)
- Gender Barriers to Access to Antiretroviral Therapy and its Link to Neurocognitive Functioning (2015) (2)
- Challenges Associated with Reading Acquisition in Sub-Saharan Africa (2019) (2)
- The effect of using a mobile literacy game to improve literacy levels of grade one students in Zambian schools (2014) (2)
- Cooperative Communication among Parents and Teachers about Children's Emergent Literacy. Final Project Report to the National Reading Research Center. (1996) (2)
- Home and School Contexts of Emergent Literacy. Instructional Resource No. 18. (1995) (2)
- A Culturally Sensitive Approach to Promoting Initial Literacy Development in Africa: Ongoing and Planned Research and Development at the University of Zambia’s Centre for Promotion of Literacy in Sub-Saharan Africa (CAPOLSA) (2017) (2)
- Systemic challenges for integration of ECDCE programmes with African cultures of early childhood socialization (2018) (2)
- The Struggle to Make Sense of School (1997) (1)
- Becoming Literate in the City: Conclusions and Implications for Policy and Practice (1958) (1)
- Exploring the links between household chores, learning, and mathematics performance in Zambia (2022) (1)
- Growing Awareness of Cultural Aspects of Psychology as a Resource for Managing Progressive Social Change (2016) (1)
- Human development in Africanist settings: Advancing the research scholarship of Bame Nsamenang (2018) (1)
- Exaggerating the Significance of Text (1991) (1)
- Growth of Communicative Competence in a Dynamic African Context (2014) (1)
- Comprehension of Nyanja by Lusaka School Children 1 (2017) (1)
- Psychology and Anthropology: a psychological perspective by Gustav Jahoda London, Academic Press, 1982. Pp. x+305. £24.00 (1985). (1986) (1)
- CULTURAL CHALLENGES FOR THE DESIGN OF SCHOOLING IN THE URBAN NEIGHBOURHOODS OF BALTIMORE CITY, USA AND RURAL NEIGHBOURHOODS OF KATETE DISTRICT, ZAMBIA (2007) (1)
- Social intervention and psychological theory (lessons from some recent studies in Zambia) (1996) (1)
- Another Opinion on Pictorial Art in Zambia (1975) (1)
- Becoming Literate in the City: Early Appropriation of Literacy in Sociocultural Context (1958) (0)
- Book Reviews (1990) (0)
- Becoming Literate in the City: Growing Up in Baltimore : The Early Childhood Project (1958) (0)
- How Relevant is American Psychology to the Rest of the World (1982) (0)
- Book Reviews (1997) (0)
- Becoming Literate in the City: References (1958) (0)
- Editorial: African Cultural Models in Psychology (2022) (0)
- Object-based Pattern Reasoning Assessment (2017) (0)
- Becoming Literate in the City: The Development of Literacy Competencies and Orientations (1958) (0)
- Grounding Innovative Promotion of Literacy in Local Funds of Knowledge (2018) (0)
- Contexts for Learning (2010) (0)
- Becoming Literate in the City: Processes of Literacy Enculturation in the Home (1958) (0)
- Becoming Literate in the City: The Intimate Culture of Children's Homes (1958) (0)
- Need for a new direction: Psychology in Africa (1977) (0)
- Becoming Literate in the City: Relations Between Homes and Schools (1958) (0)
- Can all research strengthen links between policy and practice in HIV and AIDS prevention, care and support, in Zambia? (2007) (0)
- Colour Prejudice and Oxford Landladies (1965) (0)
- Motor skills and verbal fluency in HIV positive older adults in Rural Eastern Zambia (2016) (0)
- Reviews (2006) (0)
- Competence and social participation. (2002) (0)
- The Struggle to Make Sense of School [Book Review]. (1997) (0)
- Book Reviews (1981) (0)
- Book Reviews (1994) (0)
- Effects of HIV status and Linguistic Medium on the Test Performance of Rural Low-Literacy Adults: Implications for Neuropsychological Test Development in Zambia (2013) (0)
- New Family Routine Scales (2013) (0)
- Becoming Literate in the City: The Agenda and Practices of Schooling (1958) (0)
- Great Divide Theory (2013) (0)
- Language, tribe and race in Zambia (1970) (0)
- Subject Index Vol. 40, 1997 (1997) (0)
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