dc.contributor.author	Pence, Alan
dc.contributor.author	Benner, Allison
dc.date.accessioned	2016-03-08T05:24:10Z
dc.date.available	2016-03-08T05:24:10Z
dc.date.copyright	2015	en_US
dc.date.issued	2016-03-07
dc.description.abstract	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.	en_US
dc.description.reviewstatus	Unreviewed	en_US
dc.description.scholarlevel	Faculty	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-55058-564-3
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-55058-565-0
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-55058-566-7
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1828/7069
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/	*
dc.subject	Child development	en_US
dc.subject	early childhood education	en_US
dc.subject	Child care	en_US
dc.title	Complexities, Capacities, Communities: Changing Development Narratives in Early Childhood Education, Care and Development	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Complexites, Capacites Communautes: Changer le discours sur le développement dans l’éducation, la protection et le développement de la petite enfance	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US

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