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Supporting Indigenous Children's Development: Community-University Partnerships - Hardcover

Pence, Alan; Ball, Jessica

 
9780774812306: Supporting Indigenous Children's Development: Community-University Partnerships
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0774812303 ISBN 13: 9780774812306
Publisher: UBC Press, 2006

Synopsis

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 proceeded only if both parties are present and engaged. Word of this “generative curriculum” has spread to numerous Aboriginal communities and now over sixty communities 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.

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About the Author

Jessica Ball and Alan Pence are professors in the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria.

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Publisher
UBC Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0774812303
ISBN 13 
9780774812306
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
152