.VOL. TITLE: THEORY, POLICY, AND PRACTICE IN EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES Two Sides of an Eagle’s Feather: Co-Constructing ECCD Training Curricula in University Partnerships with Canadian First Nations Communities
child care program developed, administered and operated by their own people is a vital component to their vision of sustainable growth and development. It impacts every sector of their long term plans as they prepare to enter the twenty$rst century. It will be children who inherit the struggle to re...
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| Summary: | child care program developed, administered and operated by their own people is a vital component to their vision of sustainable growth and development. It impacts every sector of their long term plans as they prepare to enter the twenty$rst century. It will be children who inherit the struggle to retain and enhance the people’s culture, language and history; who continue the quest for economic progress for a better quality of life; and who move forward with a strengthened resolve to plan their own destiny. (Meadow Lake Tribal Council Vision Statement, 1989) The above statement, adapted by the Meadow Lake Tribal Council, served as the starting point for an innovative approach for co-constructing a program of culturally-appropriate ECCD training. The model evolved through a sequence of pilot partnerships, frost with the Meadow Lake Tribal Council, and subsequently with six other tribal organizations in rural areas of Western Canada. Although distributed across vast cultural and institutional differences and distances up to 2,000 kilometres, this participatory approach to elaborating and delivering ECCD training has thrived and gained nation-wide attention as an accessible, effective way to |
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