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Education Multicultural Education

Supporting Indigenous Children's Development

Community-University Partnerships

by (author) Alan R. Pence & Jessica Ball

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2011
Category
Multicultural Education, General, Native American Studies
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774840293
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $99.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774812313
    Publish Date
    Jul 2007
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774812306
    Publish Date
    Nov 2006
    List Price
    $95.00

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Description

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 the authors

Contributor Notes

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