Indigenous knowledge and early childhood development in Africa the early childhood development virtual university / Alan Pence, Jessica Schafer. [electronic resource] :

This paper focuses on the use of Indigenous knowledge in development, and especially in early childhood development practices and policies. It examines the Early Childhood Development Virtual University (ECDVU) program, which provides distance education capacity building programs in Africa. In particular, the article describes the generative curriculum model in which students contribute to the learning process by bringing Indigenous knowledge and practices into the curriculum. The approach bears on ECD practice and curricula by seeking to better ground programs and policy in local, accepted, successful practices. By integrating Indigenous knowledge into higher education addressing ECD, the ECDVU promotes more appropriate cross-cultural curriculum content, which can lead to more effective ECD policies and programs.