ERIC Number: ED145982
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1977-Jun
Pages: 19
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Ft. McDowell Indian Community Preschool Program.
Wurster, Stanley R.; Korth, Stephanie H.
Five program components were evaluated in the second program year of a preschool program for American Indian children (N=27) aged 2-6 years and residing at Fort McDowell, Arizona. Program components were: (1) classroom and training activity (to promote maximum social, intellectual, physical, and emotional development and to provide a training laboratory where parents could interact with their children); (2) parent outreach (parent classroom participation as aides and parent education classes); (3) family counseling (to strengthen family life and tribal traditions); (4) involvement of tribal elders and historians (to increase pride in tribal heritage); (5) development of culturally relevant curriculum materials. Administered on a pre- and post-test basis, the evaluation instruments employed were: Caldwell Preschool Inventory; Denver Developmental Test; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test; Butler Evaluation Instrument; Parent as a Teacher Questionnaire; and Self Esteem Inventory. Results indicated: project success in improving social, readiness, and numerical conceptualization skills; project success in improvement of motor skills for the two-three year old group; project success in the improvement of project participants' language skills; partial project success in the improvement of social skills (gains in the areas of physical environment, world of ideas, and composite); negligible project success in the improvement of parental child rearing attitudes; and negligible project success in the improvement of parental self-concept or self esteem. (JC)
Descriptors: American Indians, Concept Formation, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background, Family Counseling, Instructional Materials, Language Skills, Number Concepts, Parent Attitudes, Parent Education, Parent Participation, Preschool Education, Program Evaluation, Psychomotor Skills, Self Concept, Skill Development, Social Relations
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