Students with internalizing behavioral concerns are an overlooked and underserved segment within education. The trend unfortunately results in poor academic and societal outcomes. In response, early prevention and identification through universal screening practices has become an important method for combating internalizing problems in education. However, additional research in the field is needed, including better psychometric understanding of the instruments available and what types of informants provide the best evidence for proper identification. Therefore, the purpose of the following study was to investigate how student and teacher informants of internalizing behaviors influence outcomes in the context of universal screening. Comparison of these two informants were done by analyzing the relationship between a teacher completed screener, the Student Internalizing Behavioral Screener (SIBS) and a student completed behavior rating scale, the Behavioral Assessment System for Children – 2nd edition (BASC-2). In addition to exploration of informant agreement, discrepancies in test score outcomes for different student age groups were investigated along with criterion relatedness of the SIBS when using student self-report as a criterion measure. Results included low agreement between teacher and student informant, as well as poor discriminate ability of the SIBS when using student self-report as a criterion. Findings also revealed a small but significant age discrepancy in the total score for the SIBS when comparing a child vs. adolescent sample. Implications of the findings suggest teachers as a sole informant about internalizing behaviors of students may not be sufficient for desired outcomes of proper identification with internalizing behaviors. Moreover, age may be a factor in monitoring internalizing problems across development and current psychometric evaluation of screeners (e.g., type of validity) should also include other informants. Based on the findings, future directions of research are also proposed. This includes exploration of the impact teachers and teacher training as well as considerations for multi-informant screening procedures.

La recherche a développé, dans le premier chapitre, le cadre théorique et l’analyse de certains aspects conceptuels concernant les systèmes éducatifs et l’éducation préscolaire, ainsi que l’analyse de données permettant la comparaison et l’évaluation des structures éducatives et d’accueil de la petite enfance dans les pays suivants : Australie, Belgique, Brésil, Canada, France, Pérou et Cuba. Ceux-ci ont servi aussi en partie comme base pour l’étude comparative et évaluative des structures éducatives préscolaires au Pérou. Nous avons mis en évidence qu’il existe différentes manières de concevoir l’organisation des services d’accueil pour les petits enfants, en fonction par exemple de facteurs sociaux, économiques, géographiques, etc. qui peuvent « configurer » différemment les services et programmes d’éducation proposés. Dans les pays d’Amérique Latine et du Caraïbe, particulièrement dans le cas du Pérou, en accord à leur situation géographique, les services d’éducation préscolaire se concentrent principalement dans le contexte urbain, où il y a prédominance des services « formels » (publics ou privés). Les modalités « non formelles » prédominent dans les zones rurales, zones de frontière et zones caractérisées par de hauts taux de pauvreté et de vulnérabilité. Dans ces pays, l’éducation « non formelle » a acquis au départ un caractère social, plus que éducatif puisqu’elle s’est développée pour venir en appui aux parents qui travaillent et compenser les situations de risque des enfants, comme la pauvreté ou le fait d’habiter dans des zones urbaines marginales, rurales ou de frontière, ce qui implique le développement social et l’amélioration des conditions de vie. Dans le cas de Cuba, du Pérou et du Brésil il existe ainsi un grand nombre de ces structures. Dans les pays développés, on utilise rarement les termes d’éducation « formelle » et « non formelle ». Cette dernière correspondrait par exemple aux structures alternatives d’accueil des enfants dans son propre domicile, surtout pour les plus petits, avec du personnel privé (gardiennes) mais pouvant être contrôlé par les autorités. Le concept de « non formel » pourrait être pris aussi dans un sens plus large pour qualifier des initiatives qui constituent des alternatives à l’enseignement classique, qui associent différents types de partenaire et qui visent par exemple à renforcer les liens entre une école et la communauté locale dans laquelle elle s’insère. L’intérêt par le thème répond aux besoins d’identifier et d’analyser les caractéristiques des structures éducatives préscolaires et les modes de gestion des institutions qui accueillent les petits enfants (de moins de trois ans), afin de connaître les mécanismes de prise en charge qu’elles développent pour répondre aux besoins éducatifs liés au développement social, économique, politique et culturel. Après, nous présentons les objectifs, la méthodologie et les résultats sur les aspects comparatifs et évaluatifs de la première partie de cette recherche, réalisée dans le cadre du DEA. Ensuite, dans le deuxième chapitre, nous formulons la problématique de recherche et sa justification, et nous présentons le plan de recherche en ce qui concerne les objectifs, hypothèses, variables, méthodologie, échantillon, processus de recueil des données, techniques et instruments de recueil des données. Nous développons ensuite, dans le troisième chapitre, les aspects méthodologiques, en ce qui concerne le niveau et type de recherche, description de la population et de l’échantillon, présentation des méthodes, des techniques et des instruments pour le recueil, les modalités pour l’organisation, le traitement et l’analyse des donnés. Finalement, dans le quatrième chapitre, nous présentons les données, analyses et discussion des résultats, ainsi que les conclusions générales. Notre travail peut apporter à la recherche concernant ce groupe d’âge, parce qu’il peut constituer une systématisation de l’organisation et du fonctionnement des structures d’accueil pour les enfants les plus petits et peut être une motivation pour continuer d’autres études sur le thème de l’éducation préscolaire, liées à des autres aspects de la gestion, aux méthodologies d’enseignement, à l’analyse des programmes, à la formation des enseignantes, etc., et dans d’autres contextes. Cela mettre en évidence le besoin d’actions multisectorielles et la coordination articulée et intégrée entre les différents secteurs pour assurer aux enfants un développement intégral (l’éducation et le développement de toutes leurs potentialités, la garde de la nourrice et de la santé). On peut tirer de cette recherche certaines conclusions qui comprennent un cadre conceptuel pour la comparaison et l’évaluation des structures éducatives préscolaires pour les enfants de moins de trois ans, indiquant les facteurs et des critères qu’il convient de prendre en considération pour des études similaires. À cet égard, à partir de la recherche a surgi la réflexion sur les critères pour évaluer la cohérence, la qualité et l’équité dans les structures d’accueil, mais elle a démontré aussi qu’il n’est pas possible de fixer les mêmes indicateurs ou standards à niveau général, ils doivent être fixés d’après la perspective de chaque réalité concrète, avec la participation des acteurs, en considérant les caractéristiques culturels et du contexte, leurs expectatives et leurs besoins. Cette recherche propose aussi une réflexion qui peut donner lieu aux connaissances sur les structures d’accueil pour les enfants les plus petits en différents contextes. The research develops, in the first chapter, the theoretical frame and the analysis of certain conceptual aspects that concern the educational systems and the pre-school education, as well as the analysis of information that have allowed the comparison and the evaluation of the educational structures and of the attention to the small infancy in the following countries: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Peru and Cuba. These served, partly, as base for the comparative study and evaluative of the educational pre-school structures in Peru. It has put in evidence that there exist different ways of conceiving the organization of the services of attention for the children, in function for example of social, economic and geographical factors, etc. That can "form" differently the services and the educational proposed programs. In the countries of Latin America and of the Caribe, particularly in case of Peru, in agreement to her geographical situation, the educational pre-school services principally center in the urban context, where there is predominance of the "formal" services (public or private). The " not formal " modalities prevail in the rural zones, the zones of border and the zones characterized by high indexes of poverty and of vulnerability. In these countries, the " not formal " education acquired initially a social character, more than educational since she developed to support the parents who work and to compensate the situations of risk of the children, as the poverty or the fact of living in zones urban marginal and rural or of border, which implies the social development and the improvement of the living conditions. In case of Cuba, Peru and Brazil there exists a great number of these structures. In the developed countries, we use strange the educational formal and not formal terms. The latter would correspond for example to the alternative structures of reception of the children in your own domicile, especially for the smallest, with private personnel but that might be controlled by the authorities. The concept of "formal" might be taken also in a more wide sense to qualify initiatives that constitute alternatives to the classic education, which different types of actors associate and which the bows try to reinforce for example between a school and a local community in which it is inserted. The interest for the topic answers to the need to identify and to analyze the characteristics of the educational pre-school structures and the manners of management of the institutions that receive the three-year-old minor children, in order to know the mechanisms that they develop to answer to the educational needs linked to the social, economic, political and cultural development. Later, let's sense beforehand the aims, the methodology and the results on the comparative and evaluative aspects of the first part of the research, realized in the frame of the DEA. Then, in the second chapter, we formulate the problematic of research and the justification, and let's sense beforehand the plan of research as for the aims, the hypotheses, the variables, the methodology, the sample, the process, the technologies and the instruments of compilation of the information. We develop then, in the third chapter, the methodological aspects, as for the level and the type of research, description of the population and of the sample, the presentation of the methods, the technologies and the instruments for the compilation of information, the modalities for the organization, the treatment and the analysis of the information. Finally, in the fourth chapter, let's sense beforehand the information, the analysis and the discussion of the results, as well as the general conclusions. Our work can reach to the research that concerns this group of age, because it can constitute a systematizing of the organization and of the functioning of the structures of attention for the smallest children and can be a motivation to continue other studies on the topic of the pre-school education, linked to other aspects of the management, to the methodologies of education, to the analysis of the programs, to the formation of the teachers, etc., and in other contexts. It puts in evidence the need of the actions of different sectors and the coordination articulated and integrated between the different sectors to assure the children an integral development (the education and the development of all your potentials, the care of the nutrition and of the health). We can obtain of this research certain conclusions that include a conceptual frame for the comparison and the evaluation of the educational pre-school structures for the three-year-old minor children, indicating the factors and criteria that it suits to bear in mind for similar studies. In the matter, from the research the reflection has arisen on the criteria to evaluate the coherence, the quality and the equity in the structures of attention to the small children, but there has been demonstrated also that it is not possible to fix the same indicators or standards to general level, these must be fixed according to the perspective of every concrete reality, with the participation of the actors, considering the cultural characteristics and of the context, your expectations and your needs. This research proposes also a reflection that can give place to knowledge on the structures of attention for the smallest children in different contexts.

The Multiple Schemes for Entering Secondary High Schools and the Basic Achievement Tests for Junior High School Students have influenced the right of almost three hundred thousand middle school graduates each year. The schemes have become the most important educational issue so far since they change apace, and bring huge dispute and problems, comparing to the former Senior (Vocational) High School Joint Entrance Exam. The main topic of this study is " The Multiple Schemes for Entering Secondary High Schools." We mainly use history research method, with the assistance of history review method, to examine the development and history of our multiple schemes for entering secondary high schools domestically. The four purposes of this research are, firstly, to understand the development and history of the multiple schemes for entering secondary schools in our country. Secondly, we analyze a series of practical contents and working conditions in the multiple enrollment programs. Thirdly, we discuss gains and losses of the multiple schemes for entering secondary high schools and its combined programs. Fourthly, we propose improvement suggestions for the multiple schemes of entering secondary high schools. According to the results of the study, we gain the following conclusions: 1.The enrolment system of multiple schemes for entering secondary high schools shows multiple appearances and multiple functions. (1)The Multiple Schemes for Entering Secondary High School is the most enormous reform of our secondary admission system in these years in Taiwan. (2)The ways of enrolment go toward multiple evaluations and it helps cultivate students' basic abilities, multiple intelligence and promote balance development of five ethics. (3)Taking care of both excellent and average students, it can helps students learn happily, grow healthily and also develop their talents freely. (4)It helps practice the system of separating examination and recruiting students, develop the function of choosing schools and students with autonomy. (5)It strengthens the relationship and helps its educational development between Senior (Vocational) High School and Junior High School. (6)The Basic Achievement Tests, the center of Multiple Enrolments, are the biggest, the most extensively standardized test and including the most students in our educational history. (7)The Multiple Schemes for Entering Secondary High School have become the new emphasis of living and learning to our middle school education. (8)The tests in each subject in the Basic Achievement Tests are connected to life, and with flexibility and high quality. Thus, it gets many positive notes from junior high school students and teachers. 2.Here come several problems of the multiple schemes for entering secondary high schools. (1)Moving admission systems doesn't take ethics of policy into consideration. (2)The policy of Multiple Schemes for Entering Secondary High Schools has become a super "Research of Action " educational reform. (3)The Multiple Schemes for Entering Secondary High Schools depart from the spirit of multiple evaluations. (4)The education reform of admission system should not stop at the point of its technical amendment. (5)The Multiple Schemes for Entering Secondary High Schools becomes another kind of Joint Entrance Examination; the value of having superstition on star schools is still the difficulty of practicing the Multiple Schemes for Entering Secondary High Schools. (6)9-year Joint Curricula Plan for Elementary and Junior High Schools that belongs to curriculum reform is behind, but the reform of Enrolment system, which belongs to curriculum evaluation, is ahead. The reforming procedure is upside-down, increasing the difficulty of moving the Multiple Schemes for Entering Secondary High Schools. (7)We short of educational funds in middle schools, so it is hard to achieve balance and build school features between the country school and city school. That will also be harmful to the competitive abilities of our middle schools. (8)Using the grades of Basic Achievement Tests as the only criteria for entering senior and vocational high schools is misused. We offer the following suggestions toward the problems of findings in this research paper: (1)The construction and amendment of the Multiple Schemes for Entering Secondary High School should return to the thinking direction of educational essence and standpoint and should never go back to the old way of Joint Entrance Examination. (2)The Multiple Schemes for Entering Secondary High School are the main criteria of education reform. Thus, the ministry of education should be careful, clear and stable to the policy planning. (3)Make the Basic Achievement Tests as a reference criteria of admission ways for entering secondary high schools, bur not the only criteria. (4)Simplify and synthesize the two admission ways of "Application for Admission" and "Selection for Admission," and have the "Application for Admission" become the main stream in our admission system. (5)We should continually discuss to synthesize and simplify the pattern of recruiting students, "The Multiple Schemes for Entering Senior and Vocational High School" and "The Multiple Schemes for Entering Junior College." (6)The ministry of education should establish the specialized test-making institute and the center of registered distribution as soon as possible. (7)The ministry of education should plan to balance the educational level of secondary school in each area and make secondary high school education exquisite. (8)We suggest to continually strengthen the constructions of test questions in the Basic Achievement Tests and the work of deepening and extending test questions, in order to elevate qualities of test questions. (9)It should be an inevitable trend to take academic performance at junior high school into consideration gradually in the Multiple Schemes for Entering Secondary High School after full preparations. (10)We should aggressively discuss to synthesize the three big recent schemes of educational reform," The Multiple Schemes for Entering Senior and Vocational High Schools", "The Schemes for Joining Senior and Vocational High Schools in each community" and "9-year Joint Curricula Plan for Elementary and Junior High Schools." Also, we should move 12-year compulsory education actively in order to construct excellent environment of secondary education and develop great multiple schemes for entering secondary high schools.

The aim of this thesis was to understand the role played by experiential learning in professional Rugby Union. Furthermore, to understand how performance information is utilised by coaches and athletes in every day practice. The thesis employed an ethnographic research method, utilising extensive participant observation, interviews, and document analysis. The thesis draws significantly on the theoretical tools of Scho??n, Bourdieu and Foucault. The key results and findings were that coaches used performance related information as a technology of self , and inculcated a hegemonic ideology. Furthermore, power relations were found and manifested inside the coach / athlete relation that reinforced the coaches spatial and temporal dominance. These dominant power relations were legitimised through the omnipresent ideology, and thus reproduced by the players and coaches. While evidence of experiential learning was documented, particularly with the academy players, the social location of practice marginalised the value of experiential learning in the coaching process. This was because performance information and the use of video based reflection were consistently used as tools of coaching authority, discipline and symbolic violence.

Text in Afrikaans / Summaries in English and Afrikaans / Die rol van die maatskaplike werker verbonde aan die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens Hoofkantoor en sy afdelings is die onderwerp van hierdie studie. Hierdie rol is aan die hand van die take wat deur middel van die studie geTdentifiseer is, bepaal. Personeelmaatskaplikewerk het die teoretiese agtergrond vir hierdie studie gevorm. Maatskaplike werk in die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens is fundamenteel in terme van sy ontstaan en ontwikkeling, missie en doelstellings beskryf.Die empiriese opname het volgens die nominale groepstegniek en 'n gestruktureerde onderhoudskedule plaasgevind. Maatskaplike werkers, kapelane, sielkundiges en bestuurders/bevelvoerders verbonde aan die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens Hoofkantoor en sy afdelings was as respondente gebruik. Die navorser het die kennis wat deur hierdie studie opgedoen is, gebruik om spesifieke aanbevelings te maak ten opsigte van Maatskaplikewerkdienste in die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens, Hoofkantoor-afdelings. / The role of the social worker attached to the South African Police Service, Head Office and its divisions is the subject of this study. This role has been prescribed by tasks which were dictated by the study. Industrial social work formed the theoretical background for this study. Social work in the South African Police Service is described in foundation in terms of its origin and development, mission and objectives. The empirical survey was carried out according to the nominal group technique and a structured interview schedule. Social workers, chaplains, psychologists and managers/ officers commanding on the staff of the South African Police Service, Head Office and its divisions, were used as respondents. The researcher has used the information gained by this study to make specific recommendations regarding Social Work Services, Head Office Divisions, in the South African Police. / Social Work / M.A.(Social Work)

Text in Afrikaans / Summaries in English and Afrikaans / Die rol van die maatskaplike werker verbonde aan die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens Hoofkantoor en sy afdelings is die onderwerp van hierdie studie. Hierdie rol is aan die hand van die take wat deur middel van die studie geTdentifiseer is, bepaal. Personeelmaatskaplikewerk het die teoretiese agtergrond vir hierdie studie gevorm. Maatskaplike werk in die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens is fundamenteel in terme van sy ontstaan en ontwikkeling, missie en doelstellings beskryf.Die empiriese opname het volgens die nominale groepstegniek en 'n gestruktureerde onderhoudskedule plaasgevind. Maatskaplike werkers, kapelane, sielkundiges en bestuurders/bevelvoerders verbonde aan die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens Hoofkantoor en sy afdelings was as respondente gebruik. Die navorser het die kennis wat deur hierdie studie opgedoen is, gebruik om spesifieke aanbevelings te maak ten opsigte van Maatskaplikewerkdienste in die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens, Hoofkantoor-afdelings. / The role of the social worker attached to the South African Police Service, Head Office and its divisions is the subject of this study. This role has been prescribed by tasks which were dictated by the study. Industrial social work formed the theoretical background for this study. Social work in the South African Police Service is described in foundation in terms of its origin and development, mission and objectives. The empirical survey was carried out according to the nominal group technique and a structured interview schedule. Social workers, chaplains, psychologists and managers/ officers commanding on the staff of the South African Police Service, Head Office and its divisions, were used as respondents. The researcher has used the information gained by this study to make specific recommendations regarding Social Work Services, Head Office Divisions, in the South African Police. / Social Work / M.A.(Social Work)

La recherche a développé, dans le premier chapitre, le cadre théorique et l’analyse de certains aspects conceptuels concernant les systèmes éducatifs et l’éducation préscolaire, ainsi que l’analyse de données permettant la comparaison et l’évaluation des structures éducatives et d’accueil de la petite enfance dans les pays suivants :Australie, Belgique, Brésil, Canada, France, Pérou et Cuba. <p>Ceux-ci ont servi aussi en partie comme base pour l’étude comparative et évaluative des structures éducatives préscolaires au Pérou. <p>Nous avons mis en évidence qu’il existe différentes manières de concevoir l’organisation des services d’accueil pour les petits enfants, en fonction par exemple de facteurs sociaux, économiques, géographiques, etc. qui peuvent « configurer » différemment les services et programmes d’éducation proposés. <p>Dans les pays d’Amérique Latine et du Caraïbe, particulièrement dans le cas du Pérou, en accord à leur situation géographique, les services d’éducation préscolaire se concentrent principalement dans le contexte urbain, où il y a prédominance des services « formels » (publics ou privés). Les modalités « non formelles » prédominent dans les zones rurales, zones de frontière et zones caractérisées par de hauts taux de pauvreté et de vulnérabilité.<p>Dans ces pays, l’éducation « non formelle » a acquis au départ un caractère social, plus que éducatif puisqu’elle s’est développée pour venir en appui aux parents qui travaillent et compenser les situations de risque des enfants, comme la pauvreté ou le fait d’habiter dans des zones urbaines marginales, rurales ou de frontière, ce qui implique le développement social et l’amélioration des conditions de vie. Dans le cas de Cuba, du Pérou et du Brésil il existe ainsi un grand nombre de ces structures.<p>Dans les pays développés, on utilise rarement les termes d’éducation « formelle » et « non formelle ». Cette dernière correspondrait par exemple aux structures alternatives d’accueil des enfants dans son propre domicile, surtout pour les plus petits, avec du personnel privé (gardiennes) mais pouvant être contrôlé par les autorités. Le concept de « non formel » pourrait être pris aussi dans un sens plus large pour qualifier des initiatives qui constituent des alternatives à l’enseignement classique, qui associent différents types de partenaire et qui visent par exemple à renforcer les liens entre une école et la communauté locale dans laquelle elle s’insère. <p>L’intérêt par le thème répond aux besoins d’identifier et d’analyser les caractéristiques des structures éducatives préscolaires et les modes de gestion des institutions qui accueillent les petits enfants (de moins de trois ans), afin de connaître les mécanismes de prise en charge qu’elles développent pour répondre aux besoins éducatifs liés au développement social, économique, politique et culturel.<p>Après, nous présentons les objectifs, la méthodologie et les résultats sur les aspects comparatifs et évaluatifs de la première partie de cette recherche, réalisée dans le cadre du DEA.<p>Ensuite, dans le deuxième chapitre, nous formulons la problématique de recherche et sa justification, et nous présentons le plan de recherche en ce qui concerne les objectifs, hypothèses, variables, méthodologie, échantillon, processus de recueil des données, techniques et instruments de recueil des données.<p>Nous développons ensuite, dans le troisième chapitre, les aspects méthodologiques, en ce qui concerne le niveau et type de recherche, description de la population et de l’échantillon, présentation des méthodes, des techniques et des instruments pour le recueil, les modalités pour l’organisation, le traitement et l’analyse des donnés.<p>Finalement, dans le quatrième chapitre, nous présentons les données, analyses et discussion des résultats, ainsi que les conclusions générales.<p>Notre travail peut apporter à la recherche concernant ce groupe d’âge, parce qu’il peut constituer une systématisation de l’organisation et du fonctionnement des structures d’accueil pour les enfants les plus petits et peut être une motivation pour continuer d’autres études sur le thème de l’éducation préscolaire, liées à des autres aspects de la gestion, aux méthodologies d’enseignement, à l’analyse des programmes, à la formation des enseignantes, etc. et dans d’autres contextes.<p>Cela mettre en évidence le besoin d’actions multisectorielles et la coordination articulée et intégrée entre les différents secteurs pour assurer aux enfants un développement intégral (l’éducation et le développement de toutes leurs potentialités, la garde de la nourrice et de la santé).<p>On peut tirer de cette recherche certaines conclusions qui comprennent un cadre conceptuel pour la comparaison et l’évaluation des structures éducatives préscolaires pour les enfants de moins de trois ans, indiquant les facteurs et des critères qu’il convient de prendre en considération pour des études similaires. À cet égard, à partir de la recherche a surgi la réflexion sur les critères pour évaluer la cohérence, la qualité et l’équité dans les structures d’accueil, mais elle a démontré aussi qu’il n’est pas possible de fixer les mêmes indicateurs ou standards à niveau général, ils doivent être fixés d’après la perspective de chaque réalité concrète, avec la participation des acteurs, en considérant les caractéristiques culturels et du contexte, leurs expectatives et leurs besoins. <p>Cette recherche propose aussi une réflexion qui peut donner lieu aux connaissances sur les structures d’accueil pour les enfants les plus petits en différents contextes.<p>The research develops, in the first chapter, the theoretical frame and the analysis of certain conceptual aspects that concern the educational systems and the pre-school education, as well as the analysis of information that have allowed the comparison and the evaluation of the educational structures and of the attention to the small infancy in the following countries: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Peru and Cuba. <p>These served, partly, as base for the comparative study and evaluative of the educational pre-school structures in Peru. It has put in evidence that there exist different ways of conceiving the organization of the services of attention for the children, in function for example of social, economic and geographical factors, etc. That can "form" differently the services and the educational proposed programs. <p>In the countries of Latin America and of the Caribe, particularly in case of Peru, in agreement to her geographical situation, the educational pre-school services principally center in the urban context, where there is predominance of the "formal" services (public or private). The " not formal " modalities prevail in the rural zones, the zones of border and the zones characterized by high indexes of poverty and of vulnerability.<p>In these countries, the " not formal " education acquired initially a social character, more than educational since she developed to support the parents who work and to compensate the situations of risk of the children, as the poverty or the fact of living in zones urban marginal and rural or of border, which implies the social development and the improvement of the living conditions. In case of Cuba, Peru and Brazil there exists a great number of these structures.<p>In the developed countries, we use strange the educational formal and not formal terms. The latter would correspond for example to the alternative structures of reception of the children in your own domicile, especially for the smallest, with private personnel but that might be controlled by the authorities. The concept of "formal" might be taken also in a more wide sense to qualify initiatives that constitute alternatives to the classic education, which different types of actors associate and which the bows try to reinforce for example between a school and a local community in which it is inserted.<p>The interest for the topic answers to the need to identify and to analyze the characteristics of the educational pre-school structures and the manners of management of the institutions that receive the three-year-old minor children, in order to know the mechanisms that they develop to answer to the educational needs linked to the social, economic, political and cultural development.<p>Later, let's sense beforehand the aims, the methodology and the results on the comparative and evaluative aspects of the first part of the research, realized in the frame of the DEA.<p>Then, in the second chapter, we formulate the problematic of research and the justification, and let's sense beforehand the plan of research as for the aims, the hypotheses, the variables, the methodology, the sample, the process, the technologies and the instruments of compilation of the information.<p>We develop then, in the third chapter, the methodological aspects, as for the level and the type of research, description of the population and of the sample, the presentation of the methods, the technologies and the instruments for the compilation of information, the modalities for the organization, the treatment and the analysis of the information.<p>Finally, in the fourth chapter, let's sense beforehand the information, the analysis and the discussion of the results, as well as the general conclusions.<p>Our work can reach to the research that concerns this group of age, because it can constitute a systematizing of the organization and of the functioning of the structures of attention for the smallest children and can be a motivation to continue other studies on the topic of the pre-school education, linked to other aspects of the management, to the methodologies of education, to the analysis of the programs, to the formation of the teachers, etc. and in other contexts.<p>It puts in evidence the need of the actions of different sectors and the coordination articulated and integrated between the different sectors to assure the children an integral development (the education and the development of all your potentials, the care of the nutrition and of the health).<p>We can obtain of this research certain conclusions that include a conceptual frame for the comparison and the evaluation of the educational pre-school structures for the three-year-old minor children, indicating the factors and criteria that it suits to bear in mind for similar studies.<p>In the matter, from the research the reflection has arisen on the criteria to evaluate the coherence, the quality and the equity in the structures of attention to the small children, but there has been demonstrated also that it is not possible to fix the same indicators or standards to general level, these must be fixed according to the perspective of every concrete reality, with the participation of the actors, considering the cultural characteristics and of the context, your expectations and your needs.<p>This research proposes also a reflection that can give place to knowledge on the structures of attention for the smallest children in different contexts. / Doctorat en Sciences Psychologiques et de l'éducation / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished