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      Funds of knowledge: Developing a Diploma in Teaching in Early Childhood Education in the Solomon Islands.

      Kelly, Janette; Daiwo, Joanna; Malasa, Viola
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      Kelly, J., Daiwo, J. & Malasa, V. (2011). Funds of knowledge: Developing a Diploma in Teaching in Early Childhood Education in the Solomon Islands. Waikato Journal of Education, 16(2), 71-83.
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      This article discusses how three early childhood teacher educators, from the Solomon Islands College of Higher Education School of Education and the University of Waikato Faculty of Education, worked in partnership together and with others to develop a new Diploma in Teaching Early Childhood Education (ECE) for the Solomon Islands. We argue that the knowledge and understandings that we shared about New Zealand early childhood education and its bicultural curriculum Te Whāriki made our task easier from the outset. So too did our shared "funds of knowledge" and expertise, particularly the Solomon Islands women's indigenous knowledge and abilities to reflect on teaching and learning in their nation and New Zealand, two contexts they understood well. As we worked through a range of issues related to the development and delivery of courses, the primacy of relationships and historical, cultural and social contexts for learning were reinforced. Broad understandings of relevant education pedagogy for adults and young children were incorporated through the diploma development process. The result was a new Diploma in Teaching Early Childhood Education and new ways of teaching and learning embedded in Solomon Islands contexts, blending the best of local and imported knowledge. This article adds to a small body of literature related to ECE in the Solomon Islands and the Pacific region.
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      2011
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      Journal Article
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      Faculty of Education, University of Waikato
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      © 2011 Waikato Journal of Education. It is posted here by permission for personal use.
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