The Relationship Between Neighborhood and Child Learning and Development: From Research to Practice in the Canadian Context

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

This symposium addresses the relationship between neighbourhood and child development and learning from research to practice in Canada. A panel of practitioners and researchers will provide a sample illustrating the research and its application through two large scale studies relating neighbourhood to academic skills during middle childhood, special issues regarding Aboriginals and Québécois, model intervention projects resulting from research, and community intervention initiated in low-income neighbourhood schools, with implications for policy-making and knowledge mobilization. The presentation incorporates theories, research, and intervention, with implications for policy and knowledge mobilization. Such linkage is crucial to Canadian children's development and supports the AERA mission and conference theme by presenting scientific knowledge to advance education and demonstrating the use of research to improve education and to serve the public good.

Sub Unit

• Presidential Session

Cosponsor

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Educational Policy and Politics

Chair

• Lily L. Dyson, Simon Fraser University

Papers

• The Relationship Between Neighborhood Socioeconomic Characteristics and the Foundational Academic Skills of Elementary School Children in British Columbia: A Large-Scale Study - Lily L. Dyson, Simon Fraser University; Jacqui Boonstra, The University of British Columbia

• Mobilizing Neighborhoods Toward Improving Child Development Outcomes: Example Demonstration Projects - Joanne Schroeder, University of British Columbia

• Children's School Readiness in Kindergarten in Quebec: Teachers' Perceptions - Pierre Lapointe, Université de Montréal

• Children’s Needs and School-Based Intervention Initiatives in the Inner-City Schools in British Columbia - Maryanne Trofimuk, Victoria School District

• Neighborhood Effect: Implications for Policy and Knowledge Mobilization - Benjamin Levin, OISE/University of Toronto

• Research on Neighborhood: Methodological and Ethical Issues Impacting Indigenous Children - Michele Sam, The University of British Columbia