Supporting Parents as their Child’s First Teacher: Aboriginal Parents’ Perceptions of KindiLink

This paper reports on Aboriginal parents’ perceptions about their involvement in a Western Australian pilot initiative called KindiLink. The program seeks to support parents as their child’s first teacher and thereby enhance Aboriginal children’s early-years development, while strengthening relationships between families and schools. A constructivist paradigm was used to inform the methodology which placed Aboriginal voices at the centre of the research.

Citation:
Barratt-Pugh C, Barblett L, Knaus M, Cahill R, Hill S, Cooper T. Supporting Parents as their Child’s First Teacher: Aboriginal Parents’ Perceptions of KindiLink. Early Child Educ J. 2021.

Keywords:
KindiLink; child's first teacher; early-years development; cultural and linquistic knowledge

Abstract:
This paper reports on Aboriginal parents’ perceptions about their involvement in a Western Australian pilot initiative called KindiLink. The program seeks to support parents as their child’s first teacher and thereby enhance Aboriginal children’s early-years development, while strengthening relationships between families and schools. A constructivist paradigm was used to inform the methodology which placed Aboriginal voices at the centre of the research.