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Collaborative Play as New Methodology: Co-constructing Knowledge of Early Child Development in the CHILD Project in British Columbia, Canada

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Comparative Early Childhood Education Services

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The Consortium for Health, Intervention, Learning and Development (CHILD) Project was a longitudinal program of research on early child development based in British Columbia (BC), Canada, from 2003 to 2008. It drew together a wide range of university-based biomedical and social scientists, community-based professionals, and government officials and policymakers. During the five years of data collection and the subsequent period of data analysis and interpreta-tion, the CHILD Project examined the interaction and impacts of biological and social influences on early child development. Some of the studies focused on marginalized or disadvantaged popula-tions and others focused more on universal programs of research that considered the needs of all children. As part of this program of research, the CHILD Project examined the benefits and challenges of interdisciplinary inquiry by weaving together the ontologies, epistemologies, and methodologies of different disciplines (Shonkoff, 2000) and by including community professionals as research partners in the ten collaborative research studies under the CHILD umbrella. In this way, the CHILD Project became a community of discourse of community-based professionals, university researchers, and graduate students in order to ensure that the research questions, methods, and outcomes of the ten studies were relevant to children and families.

Hillel Goelman and Jayne Pivik

The more we get together, together, together,

The more we get together, the happier we’ll be.

‘Cuz my friends are your friends and your friends are my friends.

The more we get together the happier we’ll be.

Traditional children’s nursery song

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  1. School of Māori, Social and Cultural Studies in Education, University of Canterbury College of Education, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Judith Duncan (Associate Professor in Education) (Associate Professor in Education)

  2. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

    Sarah Te One (Lecturer) (Lecturer)

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Goelman, H., Pivik, J. (2012). Collaborative Play as New Methodology: Co-constructing Knowledge of Early Child Development in the CHILD Project in British Columbia, Canada. In: Duncan, J., One, S.T. (eds) Comparative Early Childhood Education Services. Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137016782_10

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