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

Pence, Alan R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774812311 ISBN 13: 9780774812313

Publisher: UBC Press, 2007

Synopsis

This book challenges and offers an alternative to the imposition of best practices on communities by outside specialists. It tells of an unexpected partnership initiated by an Aboriginal tribal council with the University of Victoria’s School of Child and Youth Care. The partnership produced a new approach to professional education, in which community leaders are co-constructors of the curriculum. Word of this “generative curriculum” has spread and now over sixty communities have participated in the First Nations Partnerships Program. The authors show how this innovative program has strengthened community capacity to design, deliver, and evaluate culturally appropriate programs to support young children’s development.

About this title

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774812311
• ISBN 13: 9780774812313
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152