Learning Outside Together: Incorporating Traditional Wisdom and Promising Practices to Futureproof Child Care Programs
This project aims to increase knowledge and skills among early care and learning (ECL) professionals related to outdoor play and to the Indigenous practices and educational concepts of “land as teacher”. Key activities include developing an online training and mentorship program, recruiting participants from across BC, and implementing and evaluating the resulting program. ECL programs face barriers to spending more time outdoors due to licensing requirements, available physical space, and lack of supportive workplace policies.
Thus, one goal of the project is to support participants, via mentors, to enable them to work through implementation barriers. The legacy goal is to generate evidence, through the project evaluation, that demonstrates the effectiveness of the project’s approaches. This evidence would be used to inform, support, and sustain implementation of these approaches long after the initial funding period has ended. This three-year project is a joint partnership between the Early Childhood Educators of BC (ECEBC), the BC Aboriginal Child Care Society (BCACCS), and SRDC.
Project Details
Capability: Survey Design and Data Management - Experimentation - Program Evaluation/ Performance Measurement - Strengthening Capacity
Policy Area: Adult Learning - Adult Training - Workplace Training, Employment, P-12 Education - Preschool
Population: Women - Children - Indigenous Peoples
Start Date: April 2021
Completion Date: March 2024
Sponsors: Early Childhood Educators of BC
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