Article History
Accepted: 13 March 2022
First Online: 4 May 2022
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Ethical approval for the study was obtained from the Research Ethics Committee of the lead facilitating research institution, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. The work followed a research protocol that outlined required steps for gaining written and on-going verbal consent from all participants, and ethical conduct of research through reflexive review of proposed research methods at each site with participants and key stakeholders. All methods and procedures were reviewed and approved by an expert regional review panel facilitated by ARNEC (the Asia Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood), consisting of academics and representatives from key regional non-government organizations including UNICEF and UNESCO.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.