Supporting Indigenous children's development
Subtitle: community-university partnerships
By: Jessica Ball and Alan Pence.
Contributors: Pence, Alan R., 1948-
Publisher: UBC Press; University of British Columbia Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780774812306
Subjects: Indian children -- Education (Preschool) -- Canada; Indian children -- Care -- Canada; Community education -- Canada; Child development -- Canada; Early childhood education -- Curricula -- Canada; Early childhood teachers -- Training of -- Canada; Community and college -- Canada
Description: "Supporting Indigenous Children's Development challenges and offers an alternative to the imposition of best practices on communities by outside specialists. It tells the story of an unexpected partnership initiated by an Aboriginal tribal council with the University of Victoria's School of Child and Youth Care. The partnership has produced a new approach to professional education, in which community leaders are co-constructors of the curriculum, and implementation proceeds only if both parties are present and engaged. Word of this "generative curriculum" has spread to numerous Aboriginal communities and over sixty communities to date have participated in the First Nations Partnerships Program. Jessica Ball and Alan Pence show how this innovative program has strengthened community capacity to design, deliver, and evaluate culturally appropriate programs to support young children's development."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-127) and index.