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Professor LeVine is Roy Edward Larsen Professor of Education and Human Development, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He has been conducting cross-cultural research on parenthood and child development for 45 years. During the last 20 years the he and his wife Sarah LeVine have been investigating the impact of schooling on maternal behaviour in diverse cultures. His most recent book, co-authored with his wife, is Child Care and Culture: Lessons from Africa.
In the lecture, Professor LeVine will talk about a major problem connecting educational and population issues: how the schooling of women operates to improve child survival and reduce fertility in developing countries. He will present new findings from research in Nepal, Venezuela and other developing countries that point to literacy as a pathway of influence.
Members of the Press and interested party are cordially invited to attend.
Harvard Emeritus Professor to Deliver Lecture at HKU
07 May 2001
Professor Robert A LeVine, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Education of the University of Hong Kong, is to deliver a lecture entitled Improve the Women: Female Schooling, Literacy and Global Change at 5:30pm on Friday, May 11, at Meng Wah Complex Theatre 6, the University of Hong Kong.
Professor LeVine is Roy Edward Larsen Professor of Education and Human Development, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He has been conducting cross-cultural research on parenthood and child development for 45 years. During the last 20 years the he and his wife Sarah LeVine have been investigating the impact of schooling on maternal behaviour in diverse cultures. His most recent book, co-authored with his wife, is Child Care and Culture: Lessons from Africa.
In the lecture, Professor LeVine will talk about a major problem connecting educational and population issues: how the schooling of women operates to improve child survival and reduce fertility in developing countries. He will present new findings from research in Nepal, Venezuela and other developing countries that point to literacy as a pathway of influence.
Members of the Press and interested party are cordially invited to attend.
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