Name: Young Children's Community Building in Action - Early Childhood Australia
SKU: SUND897
Price: 73.95 AUD
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Young Children’s Community Building in Action

$73.95Member: $66.56

By Louise Gwenneth Phillips, Jenny Ritchie, Lavina Dynevor, Jared Lambert, Kerryn Moroney

Rethinking the concepts of citizenship and community in relation to young children, this groundbreaking text examines the ways in which indigenous understandings and practices applied in early childhood settings in Australia and New Zealand encourage young children to demonstrate their care and concern for others and so, in turn, perceive themselves as part of a larger community.

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Louise Gwenneth Phillips

Louise is a creative and caring coach and consultant for professionals in education and arts sectors. She has more than 30 years of collective experience, as an early childhood teacher, storyteller, consultant, researcher and tertiary educator, in diverse roles across Australia and Singapore. She is internationally known for her research and publications on storytelling, children’s rights and citizenship, arts and rights based pedagogies and methodologies

Jenny Ritchie

Jenny has over 35 years’ experience as an education and critical early childhood studies scholar. Her teaching, research, and writing have focused on supporting educators to enhance their praxis in terms of cultural, environmental and social justice issues. In 2016 she received the Bloch Award from the International Reconceptualising Early Childhood Education Conference, in recognition of her 'significant and sustained contributions to reconceptualizing early childhood research, practice, and/or theory at local, national, and/or international levels'. In 2022 she received the McKenzie Award from the New Zealand Association for Research in Education (NZARE) which recognises a 'significant contribution to educational research and to the NZARE over an extended period of time.