Pia Rebello Britto, Ph.D.

Associate Research Scientist,
Child Study Center

Email:
pia.britto@yale.edu

 

 

 

Pia Rebello Britto’s area of expertise is early child development and education programming and policy. Dr. Rebello Britto is currently working, with Sharon Lynn Kagan and a UNICEF team, in over 15 countries on the development of national standards and indicators for monitoring child development outcomes.  She is also working with national governments to formulate their early childhood policies and on evaluating early intervention programs in several countries.  Domestically, Dr. Rebello Britto is conducting research to understand the experience of growing up Muslim in the United States and the influence of the present socio-political context on young Muslim children’s identity development.

 

Select Publications

Britto, P.R., Cerezo, A., & Ogbunugafor, B. (in press). National ECD policy development: Case Study from the People's Democratic Republic of Lao. International Journal of Early Childhood.

Britto, P.R. & Amer, M. (in press). An Exploration of Cultural Identity Patterns and the Family Context Among Arab Muslim Young Adults in America. Applied Developmental Science.

Britto, P.R., & Gilliam, W. (2008). Crossing borders with Head Start: An analysis of international early childhood programs. Infants and Young Children, 21, 82-91.

Britto, P. R., Brooks-Gunn, J., & Griffin, T. (2006). Story readers and story tellers: Stylistic differences in low income, young, African-American mothers’ reading styles. Reading Research Quarterly, 41, 68-89.

Britto, P. R., Fuligni, A. S., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2006). Reading ahead? A review of early literacy intervention programs for young children from low socioeconomic status families. In D. Dickinson & S. Neuman, Handbook of early literacy, (Vol. 2), pp.311-332. New York: Guilford Press.

Britto, P. R. (2005). The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Relationship of children’s rights to the family, schools, and communities. In N. Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of human development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Kagan, S. L., Britto, P. R., & Engle, P. L. (2005). What can America learn? What can and should America teach? Phi Delta Kappa, pp. 205-208.

Kagan, S. L., Britto, P. R., Kauerz, K., & Tarrant, K. (2005). Washington early learning & development benchmarks: A guide to young children’s learning and development from birth to kindergarten entry. State of Washington.

McCabe, L. A., Britto, P. R., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2004). Games children play: Observing self-regulation in children across laboratory, home and school settings. In R. Delcarmen & A. Carter (Eds.), Handbook of infant and toddler mental health, pp. 491-521. Oxford University Pres: New York.,

Britto, P. R., Fuligni, A., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2003). Literacy, environment. In M. Bloom & T. Gullota (Eds.), Encyclopedia for primary prevention. Kluwer-Plenum.