Gender, Culture and Intervention: Exploring Differences between Aboriginal and Non‐Aboriginal Children's Responses to an Early Intervention Programme

In: Children & society, Band 27, Heft 6, S. 459-470

Abstract

Evaluation of a group parenting programme in the Northern Territory of Australia showed significant differences in benefits for Aboriginal and non‐Aboriginal boys and girls. The analysis considers whether boys and girls from different cultural backgrounds present with different problems; whether parental expectations for boys and girls differ and whether the intervention activates different responses in different settings. Conclusions suggest that there is a need to closely examine the 'cultural logic' of interventions, the appropriateness of their assumptions about child development and hypothesised mechanisms of change in different settings.