Childhood Education articles from August 2005

Childhood Education archives from August 2005

Protecting educational rights of the aboriginal and indigenous child, global challenges and efforts: an introduction.(Editorial)
August 15, 2005... The terms "indigenous" and "aboriginal" are used interchangeably in this issue to refer to original or long-term inhabitants of a geographical area. In this international theme issue, we will adhere to the definition formulated by J. Martinez...

Indigenous education.
August 15, 2005... I was an indigenous child once--a long time ago. I would like you to come with me on a journey and imagine the life experience of the indigenous child. You arrive at school with a rich cultural background and find yourself facing an expectation...

Aboriginal female children in Kanyashrams of Orissa, India: a critical assessment of the processes of educational institutionalization.
August 15, 2005... Education varies widely from the perspective of time, space, context, and requirements. Different aboriginal communities possess their own systems of informal education. The dimensions of this informal education emphasize acquisition of...

Enhancing opportunities for Australian aboriginal literacy learners in early childhood settings.
August 15, 2005... In the context of contemporary Australian society, the education system is still failing to increase educational outcomes among the majority of Australian Aboriginal (1) learners. This is evidenced in research (see Batten, Frigo, Hughes, &...

A decade after South Africa's first democratic election: prospects for indigent African learners in Durban.
August 15, 2005... In the cosmopolitan city of Durban, situated on the east coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, the population of more than three million is made up of people from various points of origin in the world. The province of KwaZulu-Natal, once a...

Promoting school achievement among American Indian students throughout the school years.
August 15, 2005... American Indian students as a population are not achieving high academic standards. For example, only 57 percent of American Indians who took the 8th-grade National Assessment of Educational Progress reading test in 2003 scored at or above the...

Mother Earth's Children's Charter School in Canada: imagining a new story of school.
August 15, 2005... What matters is that lives do not serve as models; only stories do that. And it is a hard thing to make up stories to live by. We can only retell and live by the stories we have read or heard.... Whatever their form or medium, these stories...

Proyecto Kuatiahe'e: saving a language for children.(Language Notebooks Project, Institute of Guarani Linguistics)
August 15, 2005... Nearly 20 years ago, the powerful motion picture The Mission, starring Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons, was released, bringing worldwide exposure to the Guarani aboriginal people. Based on historical events from the 1700s and set in Paraguay,...

Translating policies into practice: culturally appropriate practices in an Atayal aboriginal kindergarten program in Taiwan.
August 15, 2005... Many aboriginal cultures follow their collective wisdom in order to adapt to their living environments. The Atayal natives in Taiwan focus on the natural world, such as the stars, and birds and other animals, as their guide. They have used...

Issues of language maintenance and education of aboriginal children in India: an interview with Ajit K. Mohanty, internationally acclaimed Indian psycholinguist.(Interview)
August 15, 2005... Ajit Kumar Mohanty is a Professor of Social Psychology of Education at the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Mohanty received his doctorate from University of Alberta, Canada, in 1978,...

Children's books in Spanish.(Bibliography)
August 15, 2005... Bedtime Banks, Kate Si la luna pudiera hablar. (And If the Moon Could Talk.) Illus. by Georg Hallensleben. Trans. by Mireia Porta i Arnau. ISBN 84-261-3131-X. Barcelona: Juventud, 2003. 34 pp. $18.95. In a simple, almost poetic Spanish...

Common Bonds: Anti-bias Teaching in a Diverse Society, 3d ed.(Coming Soon From ACEI ...)(Excerpt)
August 15, 2005... ACEI is extremely pleased to announce the upcoming publication of the third edition of our most popular publication, Common Bonds. Teachers face great challenges in respecting differences while finding a common basis to help children feel...

Minimum standards for education in emergencies.(Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE))(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... The Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies' (INEE) Working Group on Minimum Standards, announces the first-ever global standards for education in emergencies and early reconstruction. The standards represent a universal tool to...