Early Childhood Education

Looks at ECC (early childhood cares) rates, risk factors, and influence of vitamin D supplementation.

Looks at indicators of equity gaps and policy reforms that would reduce equity gaps.

Provides series of lessons and activities to teach nutritional value of local, traditional foods. Structured into six units according to animals and plants found in the region.

Article explores the perception of Indigenous families' lack of interest in their children's education and finds socio-economic reasons that challenge conventional engagement.

Studies the development of Maori immersion programs, which have helped change the nature of Maori-government relations.

Describes the First Nations Partnership Program (FNPP) conceived after a request was made by the Meadow Lake Tribal Council (Saskatchewan) to develop an early childhood care and development program.

Looks at early childhood teacher education program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Includes narratives by participants in program.

Looks at the need for developing community-based preventive and treatment programs to reduce the incidence of nursing caries.

[Linguistics] Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Dakota, 1997.

Topics include: culturally focused curriculum; traditional languages and language development; networking and outreach; policies and procedures; program evaluation; and child assessments.

Looks at the post-Pratt school era which provided vocational education that included arts and crafts and athletic programmes.

Reports that Sitting Bull College in Fort Yates, North Dakota, has received approval to offer Bachelor of Science Degrees in Special Education, Early Childhood Education, Secondary Science Education and General Studies.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Ontario, 2013.

Looks at the organizational and funding factors which either contribute to success or to enforced closure of centres and makes recommendations about how to support operational requirements; based on interviews with 11 Executive Directors, 6 Indigenous managers, and 2 provincial experts in the field.

Uses data of 3 to 5 year old Inuit children from the Inuit Health Survey, "Qanuippitali, what about us, how are we?"

Australian survey.

Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (MIDST)--University of New Brunswick, 2016.

Focus on Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Variety of statistics dealing with demographics, characteristics of preprimary, elementary, high school, and postsecondary students, and educational outcomes.

Variety of statistics dealing with demographics, characteristics of pre-primary, elementary, high school, and postsecondary students, and educational outcomes.

Describes study of successful graduates' pre-school through postsecondary educational experiences as factors contributing to positive outcomes.

Examines the successes of a culturally appropriate early childcare and development program and challenges in implementing home visits in three communities in Québec; stresses the importance of hiring local Indigenous female family support workers (FSW) to provide culturally safe programming and outreach services.

"This article briefly reviews the status of urban indigenous families and discusses an innovative all-Native-American preschool, an early childhood initiative created to address the achievement gap."

Looks at research and reports about young Indigenous children’s early language learning trajectories and developmental needs, for cognitive, social, and cultural learning.

Education Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2006.

Shows speech-language pathologists need to adapt and transform their professional behaviours for suitably partnerships with Aboriginal communities. Scroll down to page 21 to read article.

Looks at colleges in partnership with the American Indian Programs Branch of the Federal Head Start Bureau that offer early childhood education degree programs.

Presents positive strategies and practices to avoid to counter stereotyping of Native Americans.

Study, using a sample of 26 households, assessed the impact of the introduction of the new media.

Booklet provides an overview of Aboriginal Head Start, site by site tour of the eight Northwest Territories Aboriginal Head Start (NWTAHS) programs, and evaluation and summary of the programs.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Brunswick, 2017.

Describes examples from "mainstream" educational settings where teachers incorporated Māori views about "caring for ourselves, others and the environment" as specified in the New Zealand curriculum document Te Whàriki.

Tribal American Consulting Corporation in 1972 began developing a preschool program to meet the needs of Native American students based on traditional tribal cultures but also appropriate for today's children.

Provides recommendations for the purpose of developing and maintaining a qualified early childhood educators workforce.

Briefly describes research, explains importance of early experiences for Aboriginal children, fragmentation of services and transitional effects on child development, and recommendations for remediation.

Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--Cardinal Stritch University, 2001.

Looks at experiences by a group of indigenous parents, family members and early childhood educators in the Aboriginal Head Start program.

Looks at the Generative Curriculum Model, a unique program responding to community needs and culture. Chapter from: Theory, Policy and Practice in Early Childhood Services edited by H. Penn

Evaluation of web-based reading support tool, ABRACADABRA, took place over one semester in primary schools in 2009. Found that students who had used tool scored significantly higher in phonological awareness than those in the control group.