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Complexities, capacities, communities:changing development narrativesin early childhood education, care and development

Pence, Alan - Nama Orang
Benner, Allison - Nama Orang
Bakuza, Fortidas - Nama Orang
Mwinuka, Clarence - Nama Orang
Kholowa, Foster - Nama Orang
Chalamanda, Francis - Nama Orang

The term ‘capacity building’ has come into common usage in twenty-first century international development. While the term means different things to different people, it is often used to describe an infusion of knowledge or skills to help ‘build’ a government’s or institution’s ability to address key development challenges. However, like other well intentioned interventions from the industrialized West, such ‘capacity building’ can have destructive, as well as productive, impacts. This volume problematizes such activities and presents an alternative approach to promoting capacity in development contexts. The volume starts with an exploration of the concept of capacity building and goes on to focus on two examples of capacity promotion for early childhood education, care and development (ECD). The First Nations Partnerships Program (FNPP), an innovative and successful post-secondary education program initiated in 1989 at the request of a large tribal council in northern Canada, led to 10 educational deliveries with diverse Indigenous communities over the subsequent two decades. The second program, launched in 1994 at the request of UNICEF headquarters, focuses on sub-Saharan Africa. While the program encompasses a range of capacity-promoting activities, the central vehicle for this ECD development work is the Early Childhood Development Virtual University (ECDVU), a program created in 2001 and now in transition to African universities. This book describes approaches to capacity promotion that respond to the complexities and possibilities of communities—at local and country levels. These initiatives challenge established developmental narratives in ECD and international development, and in so doing provide alternative ways for scholars and practitioners in ECD, education, and the broad international development field to enhance capacities.

Additional Information
Penerbit
Victoria : University of Victoria
GMD ( General Material Designation )
Electronic Resource
No. Panggil
305.231
PEN
c
305.231 PEN c
ISBN/ISSN9781550585650
Klasifikasi
305.231
Deskripsi Fisik
iv, 118p. : ill
Bahasa
English
Edisi
-
Subjek
child development
Humans
Child
Child, Preschool
Narration
Pernyataan Tanggungjawab
Info Detail Spesifik
-
GMD
Electronic Resource
Tipe Isi
text
Tipe Media
computer
Tipe Pembawa
online resource

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