Native American & Indigenous Children's Development

Session Type: Duo Address

Abstract

We draw on our work enhancing cultural relevance or responsiveness of early childhood education and care interventions in Africa. In this qualitative work, we identified what constitute success indicators for early childhood interventions, characteristics of successful interventions, and challenges encountered in implementing culturally relevant interventions in Africa. Guiding principles were developed based on the qualitative findings assist in framing early childhood interventions in Africa and strategies were worked out to make the all the stages of project cycle of an intervention culturally relevant. In this address, we focus on the guiding principles and discuss them in relations to two Indigenous Peoples in Africa, the Maasai of Kenya, and the San of Botswana.

Sub Unit

• Invited Program

Speakers

• Megan Bang, Northwestern University

• Seth Oppong, University of Botswana