Robinson, Gary W,
Eickelkamp, Ute,
Goodnow, Jacqueline,
Katz, Ilan,
Collection
E-Publications,
E-Books,
PublicationNT,
Date
2008,
Description
'Contexts of Child Development' is an inspiring and thought-provoking collection that aims to deepen our understanding of child development in order to positively influence the people, policies and practices that help shape children's lives. Drawing on a range of methodological, theoretical and practical perspectives, and on leading Australian and international research, the volume challenges us to consider issues as diverse as the continuing impact of past colonial policies and practices on Australian Aboriginal child development today; the ways in which a focus on 'learning through the arts' can be beneficial to other areas of development, including literacy; and the potentially disabling consequences of the socio-culturally biased construction of what constitutes a 'good childhood' which currently underpins policy in the UK. A key concern of the collection is to advance insights and understandings of child development in relation to questions of cultural diversity, social disadvantage and state-supported interventions. Hence, many of the contributions focus on the outcomes of child development in Australian Aboriginal communities, including Ernabella and Docker River in the Western Desert, Darnley Island in north-east Queensland, the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory, Yakanarra in the Kimberley, and the Yorta Yorta in rural Victoria. While the editors consider that the contributions collectively 'point to complex patterns of intergenerational reproduction of disadvantage for which there is no single intervention p oint', they conclude that the challenge for educators, pol icy makers, governments an d communities alike is to find and follow the ways and means by which it is possible to support the outcomes of child development in order that the deleterious effects of multiple disadvantage might be undone. [ This volume redefines the intersection of history, science, culture, and evidence about child development to address the modern Australian Aboriginal circumstance. Essential reading for those in politics, policy and practice. Professor Fiona Stanley AC, University of Western Australia.] Contributors: Julie Andrews, Gordon Briscoe, Courtney Cazden, Frances Christie, Robin Dalby, Samantha Disbray, Ute Eickelkamp, Jacqueline Goodnow, Pauline Fietz, Michael Gooda, Judith A. Griffin, Colleen Hayward, Allison James, Ilan Katz, Jill Korbin, David Lawrence, John De Maio, Francis Mitrou, Barbara Piscitelli, Glenn Pearson, Gary Robinson, Dorothy Scott, Carrington Shepherd, Sven Silburn, Gillian Wigglesworth, Steve Zubrick.,
Table of contents
List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Map -- Foreword -- Introduction / Robinson, Eickelkamp, Goodnow, Katz. Contexts of Child Development: Culture, Policy and Intervention -- Section 1: Constructs of Aboriginal Wellbeing: Historical, cultural and social realities -- 1. Assimilation and Indifference: The paradoxical treatment of Indigenous children in Central Australia, 1914-1951 / Briscoe -- 2. Bringing up our Yorta Yorta Children / Andrews -- 3. Vulnerabilities, Families and Child Development: Crises affecting the young in a north Australian community / Robinson -- 4. Socialisation and the Shaping of Youth Identity at Docker River / Fietz -- 5. The Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey: Are there any policy implications? / Zubrick et al -- Section 2: Childhood, Community and State: The challenge of intervention -- 6. Research and Action:Challenges, moves forward and unfinished tasks / Goodnow -- 7. Early Intervention and 'Evidence-based' Policy / Katz -- 8. Day Care or Early Education? Perspectives on the institutional provision for young children in the UK / James -- 9. Early Childhood and Community: Capacity building in early childhood networks / Scott -- 10. Child Neglect and Abuse across Cultures / Korbin -- Section 3: Play, Symbols and Language: Development and learning in and out of school -- 11. Play, Imagination and Early Experience: Sand storytelling and continuity of being among Anangu Pitjantjatjara girls / Eickelkamp -- 12. Images of Childhood: By children, about culture and identity / Piscitelli -- 13. A Longitudinal Study of Language Acquisition in Australian Aboriginal Children in Three Communities / Disbray & Wigglesworth -- 14. Advanced Literacy Development for the Years of Adolescence / Christie -- 15. A Longitudinal Follow-up Study of the Alumnae of a Middle-School Science and Literacy Program: Achieving and sustaining / Cazden -- References -- Index,
Language
English,
Subject
1303 - Specialist Studies in Education,
Teaching & Learning,
Indigenous,
North Australia,
Publisher name
Charles Darwin University Press (CDU Press),
Place of publication
Darwin,
Format
xxiv, 242 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm,