scholarly journals Implementing a Comprehensive Program for the Prevention of Conduct Problems in Rural Communities: The Fast Track Experience

1997 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen L. Bierman ◽  
John D. Cole ◽  
Kenneth A. Dodge ◽  
Mark T. Greenberg ◽  
John E. Lochman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Conduct Problems ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
Comprehensive Program

scholarly journals Using the Fast Track randomized prevention trial to test the early-starter model of the development of serious conduct problems

2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 925-943 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Conduct Problems ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
Social Preference ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Developmental Theory ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Prevention Trial ◽  
Parent Ratings ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Early Starter

The Fast Track prevention trial was used to test hypotheses from the Early-Starter Model of the development of chronic conduct problems. We randomly assigned 891 high-risk first-grade boys and girls (51% African American) to receive the long-term Fast Track prevention or not. After 4 years, outcomes were assessed through teacher ratings, parent ratings, peer nominations, and child self-report. Positive effects of assignment to intervention were evident in teacher and parent ratings of conduct problems, peer social preference scores, and association with deviant peers. Assessments of proximal goals of intervention (e.g., hostile attributional bias, problem-solving skill, harsh parental discipline, aggressive and prosocial behavior at home and school) collected after grade 3 were found to partially mediate these effects. The findings are interpreted as consistent with developmental theory.

scholarly journals Scheffler’s autopsy of poverty in the biblical text: Critiquing land expropriation as an elitist project

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Temba T. Rugwiji
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Land Expropriation ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Reform Programme

The theme of poverty has recently dominated various scholarly platforms, including academic presentations and public debates. Nevertheless, it has emerged that the rhetoric about poverty reduction seems to be the project of the elite who apparently write and speak on behalf of the poor. The plight of the majority of the poor is problematised so that transformation is superficially democratised with the ultimate aim of benefitting the elite. The present study reflects on Eben Scheffler’s contributions on poverty and the poor in the Old Testament books of the Pentateuch, the Psalms and the Proverbs. Although this study refers to Scheffler’s other works on poverty from time to time, particular attention is paid to four of them, namely, (1) ‘The poor in the Psalms: A variety of views’; (2) ‘Of poverty prevention in the Pentateuch as a continuing contemporary challenge’; (3) ‘Poverty in the Book of Proverbs: Looking from above’; (4) ‘Pleading poverty (or identifying with the poor for selfish reasons): On the ideology of Psalm 109’. Scheffler points out that it was the ancient Israelite elite who played the role of writing and speaking on behalf of the poor. It is essential to note that Scheffler’s thrust is not an appropriation exercise, although in some places he makes reference to the ‘contemporary world’. Thus, the present study attempts to explore the land debate in our contemporary world, with a special focus on South Africa’s (SA) land expropriation without compensation (LEWIC) debate and the foiled fast-track land reform programme in Zimbabwe, as elitist projects. The Zimbabwean Fast-Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) was a prototype of LEWIC in SA. It is argued that the poor rural communities in Zimbabwe continue to languish in poverty in a country endowed with abundant natural resources, including land. The study argues that land allocation in Zimbabwe benefitted the elite.

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