Planning for an American Indian Child Development Center

美国印第安儿童发展中心的规划白色贝弗利河金努力发展一个美国印第安儿童发展中心的校园内的南达科他州州立大学在布鲁金斯，南达科他州，将开始为期两天的研讨会，旨在解决几个问题。 讲习班将有助于制定一项具体的使命和一套严格界定的研究目标。 目前，SDSU中心的目的是从不同层次的分析中确定影响积极发展的因素（例如，个人、家庭和社区）和背景（例如，种族，文化）在美国印第安儿童。 这些影响可能与主流文化相同，也可能不同。 为了利用这些信息帮助美洲印第安儿童及其家庭了解儿童期发展的功能途径，需要对这一问题有进一步的了解。无论是在指导未来研究的理论方面，还是在设计对美国印第安儿童多重影响敏感的方法方面，发展 这将包括参与定义研究问题和潜在项目的选定教师。 虽然这项工作的大部分将在此之前通过初步的通信完成，这个最初的上午会议将被设计为审查和完善的研究问题和随之而来的框架。 下午的会议将向整个学术界开放，以接受关于生命过程观点和在这一框架内工作所用方法的培训。 预计将举行较小的分组讨论会，探讨与这一模式有关的问题。 然后，各小组将再次开会，结束当天的活动，并让顾问们回答任何最后的问题，讲习班的第二天将包括来自当地部落和社区的美洲印第安人代表进行更有重点的培训。 他们将被要求分享他们的信仰，理解和实践相对于儿童的演示文稿。 小型分组会议将在午餐前举行，午餐后继续。 各小组将再次开会，收集信息并提出结论性意见。 部落社区的投入对最后确定研究问题和议程至关重要，研究合作者将举行几次后续会议，审查从讲习班收集的信息，并将其纳入讲习班前制定的一套原始具体研究问题。 这些信息将被用于制定一个更加连贯和重点突出的中心发展建议。 最后，在研讨会之后的某个时候访问一些现有的美国印第安人中心将是非常宝贵的。 这些访问可能有助于确定一个专注于美国印第安儿童发展的中心可能发挥作用的方式，以及如何促进具体的研究问题和随后的项目。

AbstractPlanning for an American Indian Child Development CenterJoseph M. White & Beverly R. KingEfforts to develop an American Indian Child Development Center on the campus of South Dakota State University in Brookings, SD, will begin with a two day workshop designed to address several issues. The workshop will help in the development of a specific mission and a set of narrowly defined research objectives. At present the purposes of a Center at SDSU would be to identify factors that influence positive development from different levels of analysis (e.g., individuals, families, and communities) and context (e.g., ethnicity, culture) among American Indian children. These influences may or may not be the same as the majority culture. Further insight into this issue is needed in order to use this information to assist American Indian children and their families in the process of understanding functional pathways to development across childhood.Activities planned for the workshop include training in the life course perspective, both in terms of a theory to guide future research and in terms of designing methodologies that will be sensitive to multiple influences on American Indian child development. This will include selected faculty involved in defining the research questions and potential projects. Although much of this work will have been done prior to this time via preliminary correspondence, this initial morning session will be designed to review and refine the research questions and ensuing framework. The afternoon session will be open to the academic community at large to receive training on the life course perspective and the methodology used to work within this framework. Smaller breakout groups are anticipated to explore issues related to this paradigm. Groups will then reconvene to conclude the day's activities and to allow the consultants to respond to any final questions.The second day of the workshop will include a more focused level of training from American Indian representatives from local tribes and communities. They will be asked to share presentations about their beliefs, understanding, and practice relative to children. Smaller breakout sessions will occur prior to lunch and resume after lunch. Groups will again reconvene to pull information together and provide concluding comments. Input from the tribal communities will be critical to finalizing the research questions and agenda.Research collaborators will have several follow-up meetings to review the information gleaned from the workshop and integrate it into the original set of specific research questions that were developed prior to the workshop. This information will then be used to develop a more coherent and focused proposal for the development of a center. Finally, visits to a few existing American Indian Centers sometime following the workshops will be invaluable. The visits may help identify ways in which a center focused on American Indian Child Development might function and how the specific research questions and ensuing projects may be facilitated.