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- Title: Bottling the Good Stuff: Stories of Hospitality and Yarnin' in a Multi-Racial Kindergarten (Report)
- Author : Australasian Journal of Early Childhood
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 219 KB
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Introduction IN EARLY 2007, we began a five-year ethnographic study based at a multi-racial kindergarten in a regional town located one hour's drive from a major Australian city. This project arose out of discussions with the district coordinator of the state government department responsible for education who identified this kindergarten as exemplary with regard to student learning and community engagement. The district coordinator invited us to undertake some work into what makes this kindergarten successful, while other educational sites in the town had been identified as facing some significant challenges around issues related to race, income and poor educational outcomes for certain identifiable groups of children. One educator familiar with the context described the town as 'a racial powder keg just waiting to go off' and each of the educational sites in the town were said to be 'hotspots for community tensions'.