Building on Living Traditions: Early Childhood Education and Culture in Solomon Islands

Autor/in	Burton, Lindsay J.
Titel	Building on Living Traditions: Early Childhood Education and Culture in Solomon Islands
Quelle	In: Current Issues in Comparative Education, 15 (2012) 1, S.157-175 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1523-1615
Schlagwörter	Young Children; Kindergarten; Developing Nations; Foreign Countries; Early Childhood Education; Sustainability; Ethnography; Folk Culture; Solomon Islands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frühe Kindheit; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Ausland; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Nachhaltigkeit; Ethnografie; Salomonen
Abstract	The Solomon Islands, a small developing nation in the South Pacific, demonstrates an emerging community-based kindergarten model with the potential to promote context and culture relevant early learning and development, despite deeply embedded foundations in colonial legacies. Based on the Kahua region of Makira-Ulawa Province, this collaborative, ethnographically-informed, study explores how the kindergarten is situated at the core of a cultural revolution. Findings enlighten how the kindergarten is serving as the basis to building on living traditions through cultural reinvigoration efforts, while the very essence of the kindergarten's sustainability has become dependent upon the revitalization of traditional practices historically fundamental to Kahuan society. From this, implications drawn address how community-based initiatives can facilitate early childhood education while still supporting context-specific cultures and identities through sustainable initiatives. (Contains 1 table, 2 figures and 7 endnotes.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Teachers College, Columbia University. International and Transcultural Studies, P.O. Box 211, 525 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027. e-mail: info@cicejournal.org; Web site: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/cice
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10