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Voices heard and lessons learnt : Exploring multiple knowledges and local participation in a community-based integrated early childhood development project in rural South Africa (2019)

Murray, J., & Rudolph, N. (2019). Voices heard and lessons learnt : Exploring multiple knowledges and local participation in a community-based integrated early childhood development project in rural South Africa. Journal of Pedagogy, 10(1), 13-32. https://doi.org/10.2478/jped-2019-0001

JYU-tekijät tai -toimittajat

Julkaisun tiedot

Julkaisun kaikki tekijät tai toimittajat: Murray, Jaclyn; Rudolph, Norma

Lehti tai sarja: Journal of Pedagogy

ISSN: 1338-1563

eISSN: 1338-2144

Julkaisuvuosi: 2019

Volyymi: 10

Lehden numero: 1

Artikkelin sivunumerot: 13-32

Kustantaja: Trnava University

Julkaisumaa: Slovakia

Julkaisun kieli: englanti

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jped-2019-0001

Julkaisun avoin saatavuus: Avoimesti saatavilla

Julkaisukanavan avoin saatavuus: Kokonaan avoin julkaisukanava

Julkaisu on rinnakkaistallennettu (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/65502

Tiivistelmä

Following calls for diverse and contextual perspectives of the rich lives of young children, their families and communities from/in the Global South, this paper presents critical reflections emerging from a three-year (2016-2019) communitybased Integrated Approach to Early Childhood Development (ECD) project implemented in the rural Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. It explores the critical relationship established between a range of stakeholders involved in this project as reflected on by two community activists working together in the area of early childhood in the province for thirty years. This article highlights the importance of situating any community development initiative aimed at addressing early childhood provision in marginalised communities within a social justice framework. This includes identifying constraints inherent in unequal relations of power that risk undermining solidarity and agency for community stakeholders. It foregrounds accountability measures that emerge from local initiatives rather than from narrow predetermined project outcomes. This provides an opportunity to learn from, and engage with, experiences from the margins, thereby challenging some dominant narratives circulating, and often informing, early childhood policy and provision.

YSO-asiasanat: varhaiskasvatus; kehittämisprojektit; paikallisyhteisöt; osallistaminen; toimijuus; yleishyödylliset yhteisöt; valtarakenteet; sosiaalinen oikeudenmukaisuus

Vapaat asiasanat: Etelä-Afrikka

Liittyvät organisaatiot

OKM-raportointi: Kyllä

Raportointivuosi: 2019

JUFO-taso: 1