Children And The Environment In An Australian Indigenous Community

Author : Angela Kreutz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317807537

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Children and the Environment in an Australian Indigenous Community by Angela Kreutz Pdf

Aboriginal children represent one of the fastest growing population segments in Australia, yet the lives of Aboriginal children in their environment has rarely been subjected to systematic and in-depth study. In this book, Angela Kreutz considers the relationship between the environment, attachment and development in indigenous children, examining theoretical constructs and conceptual models by empirically road testing these ideas within a distinct cultural community. The book presents the first empirical study on Australian Aboriginal children’s lives from within the field of child-environment studies, employing an environmental psychology perspective, combined with architectural and anthropological understandings. Chapters offer valuable insights into participatory planning and design solutions concerning Aboriginal children in their distinct community environment, and the cross-cultural character of the case study illuminates the commonalities of child development, as well as recognising the uniqueness that stems from specific histories in specific places. Children and the Environment in an Australian Indigenous Community makes significant theoretical, methodological and practical contributions to the international cross disciplinary field of child-environment studies. It will be of key interest to researchers from the fields of environmental, ecological, developmental and social psychology, as well as anthropologists, sociologists, and those studying the environment and planning.

Author : Louise Gwenneth Phillips,Jenny Ritchie,Lavina Dynevor,Jared Lambert,Kerryn Moroney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429767289

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Young Children's Community Building in Action by Louise Gwenneth Phillips,Jenny Ritchie,Lavina Dynevor,Jared Lambert,Kerryn Moroney Pdf

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. Young Children’s Community Building in Action acknowledges global variations in the meanings of early childhood education, of citizenship and community building, and challenges widespread invisibility and disregard of Indigenous communities. Through close observation and examination of early years settings in Australia and New Zealand, chapters demonstrate how practices guided by Aboriginal and Māori values support and nurture children’s personal and social development as individuals, and as citizens in a wider community. Exploring what young children’s citizenship learning and action looks like in practice, and how this may vary within and across communities, the book provides a powerful account of effective pedagogical approaches which have been long excluded from mainstream dialogues. Written for researchers and students of early childhood education and care, this book provides insight into what citizenship can be for young children, and how Indigenous cultural values shape ways of knowing, being, doing and relating.

Author : Helen Kopnina,Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317667957

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Routledge Handbook of Environmental Anthropology by Helen Kopnina,Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet Pdf

Environmental Anthropology studies historic and present human-environment interactions. This volume illustrates the ways in which today's environmental anthropologists are constructing new paradigms for understanding the multiplicity of players, pressures, and ecologies in every environment, and the value of cultural knowledge of landscapes. This Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary topics in environmental anthropology and thorough discussions on the current state and prospective future of the field in seven key sections. As the contributions to this Handbook demonstrate, the subfield of environmental anthropology is responding to cultural adaptations and responses to environmental changes in multiple and complex ways. As a discipline concerned primarily with human-environment interaction, environmental anthropologists recognize that we are now working within a pressure cooker of rapid environmental damage that is forcing behavioural and often cultural changes around the world. As we see in the breadth of topics presented in this volume, these environmental challenges have inspired renewed foci on traditional topics such as food procurement, ethnobiology, and spiritual ecology; and a broad new range of subjects, such as resilience, nonhuman rights, architectural anthropology, industrialism, and education. This volume enables scholars and students quick access to both established and trending environmental anthropological explorations into theory, methodology and practice.

Author : Carmen Peresich
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783656937166

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The Stolen Children and Aboriginal Culture. Governmental Policy and Institutions by Carmen Peresich Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1, Klagenfurt University (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Topics in Culture: Australia – Indigenous Cultures, language: English, abstract: The chapter of the so called "Stolen Children" is certainly one of the darkest in Australia’s history. White people determined by ethnocentric convictions attempted to assimilate Indigenous people and, therefore, destroyed countless lives. The film "Rabbit-Proof Fence" by Phillip Noyce (2002), which is well-known and often screened in classrooms, impressively depicts the fate and suffering of three of them and gave the impetus for the present paper. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the policy of removing children from their families did not accomplish any “good work” but happened with the aim of controlling and assimilating Aboriginal people.

Author : Elizabeth Grant,Kelly Greenop,Albert L. Refiti,Daniel J. Glenn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1001 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789811069048

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The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture by Elizabeth Grant,Kelly Greenop,Albert L. Refiti,Daniel J. Glenn Pdf

​This Handbook provides the first comprehensive international overview of significant contemporary Indigenous architecture, practice, and discourse, showcasing established and emerging Indigenous authors and practitioners from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Canada, USA and other countries. It captures the breadth and depth of contemporary work in the field, establishes the historical and present context of the work, and highlights important future directions for research and practice. The topics covered include Indigenous placemaking, identity, cultural regeneration and Indigenous knowledges. The book brings together eminent and emerging scholars and practitioners to discuss and compare major projects and design approaches, to reflect on the main issues and debates, while enhancing theoretical understandings of contemporary Indigenous architecture.The book is an indispensable resource for scholars, students, policy makers, and other professionals seeking to understand the ways in which Indigenous people have a built tradition or aspire to translate their cultures into the built environment. It is also an essential reference for academics and practitioners working in the field of the built environment, who need up-to-date knowledge of current practices and discourse on Indigenous peoples and their architecture.

Author : Julie Davis,Sue Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317663607

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Research in Early Childhood Education for Sustainability by Julie Davis,Sue Elliott Pdf

Sustainability is a global issue that urgently needs addressing, and for which the most serious consequences are for children and future generations. This insightful research text tackles one of the most significant contemporary issues of our times – the nexus between society and environment – and how early childhood education can contribute to sustainable living. By offering international and multidisciplinary research perspectives on Early Childhood Education for Sustainability, each chapter explores and investigates the complex topic of sustainability and its relationship to early childhood education. A particular emphasis that runs through this text is young children as empowered citizens, capable of both contributing to and creating change for sustainability. The chapter authors work from, or are aligned with, a transformative education paradigm that suggests the socio-constructivist frameworks currently underpinning Early Childhood Education require reframing in light of the social transformations necessary to address humanity’s unsustainable, unjust and unhealthy living patterns. This research text is designed to be provocative and challenging; in so doing it seeks to encourage exploration of current understandings about Early Childhood Education for Sustainability, offers new dimensions for more deeply informed practice, and proposes avenues for further research in this field.

Author : Robyn A. Penman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122920015

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The 'growing Up' of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children by Robyn A. Penman Pdf

Author : Janet Loebach,Sarah Little,Adina Cox,Patsy Eubanks Owens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429012815

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The Routledge Handbook of Designing Public Spaces for Young People by Janet Loebach,Sarah Little,Adina Cox,Patsy Eubanks Owens Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Designing Public Spaces for Young People is a thorough and practical resource for all who wish to influence policy and design decisions in order to increase young people’s access to and use of public spaces, as well as their role in design and decision-making processes. The ability of youth to freely enjoy public spaces, and to develop a sense of belonging and attachment to these environments, is critical for their physical, social, cognitive, and emotional development. Young people represent a vital citizen group with legitimate rights to occupy and shape their public environments, yet they are often driven out of public places by adult users, restrictive bylaws, or hostile designs. It is also important that children and youth have the opportunity to genuinely participate in the planning of public spaces, and to have their needs considered in the design of the public realm. This book provides both evidence and tools to help effectively advocate for more youth-inclusive public environments, as well as integrate youth directly into both research and design processes related to the public realm. It is essential reading for researchers, design and planning professionals, community leaders, and youth advocates.

Author : John Boulton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317355311

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Aboriginal Children, History and Health by John Boulton Pdf

This volume traces the complex reasons behind the disturbing discrepancy between the health and well-being of children in mainstream Australia and those in remote Indigenous communities. Invaluably informed by Boulton’s close working knowledge of Aboriginal communities, the book addresses growth faltering as a crisis of Aboriginal parenting and a continued problem for the Australian nation. The high rate and root causes of ill-health amongst Aboriginal children are explored through a unique synthesis of historical, anthropological, biological and medical analyses. Through this fresh approach, which includes the insights of specialists from a range of disciplines, Aboriginal Children, History and Health provides a thoughtful and innovative framework for considering Indigenous health.

Author : Julie Davis,Sue Elliott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781009488358

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Young Children and the Environment by Julie Davis,Sue Elliott Pdf

Young Children and the Environment is a practical, future-oriented resource that explores how early childhood educators can work with children, their families and wider community to tackle issues of sustainability. Now in its third edition, this seminal text covers Early Childhood Education for Sustainability, as well as the science of sustainability, public health, children's wellbeing, ethics and a broad range of environmental management topics. 'Stories from the Field' present practical ideas for early childhood educators to support their own learning and teaching in sustainability, and international case studies provide examples of how sustainability is taught to young children across the globe. Young Children and the Environment is a call to action for those who work with children to put in place practices for a sustainable future. This book is a vital resource for students and practitioners looking for guidance on how to implement change for the future of children and the environment.

Author : Eve Vincent,Timothy Neale
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1742588786

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Unstable Relations by Eve Vincent,Timothy Neale Pdf

The 1970s witnessed the emergence of a global environmental movement in response to rampant resource extraction. This moment gave rise to a celebrated 'green-black alliance' between environmentalists and Indigenous groups in Australia. However, in recent years, this relationship has come under increased critical scrutiny, spurred in part by the global mining boom and continuing concerns about the effects of climate change. This edited collection brings together leading anthropologists, social scientists, activists, and writers to subject the Indigenous-environmentalist relation to rigorous, empirical inquiry, and to explore noted controversies, campaigns, and key issues, such as: the Wild Rivers Act and James Price Point, mining, native title rights, 'feral' species, forestry, national parks, and payment for environmental services. The insights generated here have relevance beyond Australia as scholars investigate the politics of indigeneity in the present moment, and consider the economic future of Indigenous minorities. Significantly, the collection involves both Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors, subjecting environmentalists to a kind of anthropological analysis. [Subject: Environmental Studies, Politics, Indigenous Studies]

Author : Zoi Nikiforidou,Babs Anderson,Wilma Robles-Melendez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781040015551

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Resilience and Wellbeing in Young Children, Their Families and Communities by Zoi Nikiforidou,Babs Anderson,Wilma Robles-Melendez Pdf

Resilience and Wellbeing in Young Children, Their Families and Communities unpicks the theme of resilience and wellbeing through diverse contexts, circumstances, populations and life stories in order to explore its complexity globally. Current societal events have brought forward a need for understanding how to best support and create environments with conditions that promote children’s holistic wellbeing. Violence in all its facets, poverty, political conflict and the recent pandemic are among the major realities threatening children, and this demands attention to how resilience can be supported to effectively safeguard children’s lived experiences. This book explores resilience from a range of perspectives, research projects and practical support mechanisms for young children, families, educators and communities. It starts with theoretical conceptualizations and goes on to present specific research projects and applied initiatives and how these can be used in application to praxis for young children and their families. Being of interest to educators and human services striving to advocate for and enhance young children’s wellbeing, this book will serve as both a useful overview of the many approaches to supporting resilience in young children, while providing a sound theoretical perspective that is accessible for all.

Author : Simon Barraclough,Heather Gardner
Publisher : Elsevier Australia
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Health planning
ISBN : 9780729538435

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Analysing Health Policy by Simon Barraclough,Heather Gardner Pdf

"Analysing health policy explores Australian health policy using a novel, problem-orientated approach. It shows the problem-solving techniques that are used when developing policy and demonstrates the skills of analysis and decision making.Introductory chapters explain the problem-orientated approach to health policy development and introduce the policy making process. Case studies then explore developments in health policy in both priority and topical areas. Chapters illustrate how policy-makers respond to perennial and emerging policy problems and demonstrate problem-solving approaches to the conception, development and implementation of health policy."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Joanne Crawford
Publisher : R.I.C. Publications
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9781863118101

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Australian Aboriginal Culture by Joanne Crawford Pdf

A four book series which explores Aboriginal culture in the following areas: In the past ; Cultural identity ; Communication ; Using the environment ; Rules and responsibilities.

Author : Julie M. Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781107636347

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Young Children and the Environment by Julie M. Davis Pdf

This is an essential text for students, teachers and practitioners in a range of early childhood education and care settings.