Abstract

The Innovative Child Care Practices for Children at Risk was an international development project that took place in the suburbs of José C Paz and Moreno, in the periphery of Buenos Aires, Argentina during the economic crisis of 2001. The project attempted to use Alan Pence's Generative Curriculum Approach in training educators in community child care centres. The project concluded in 2004 and no further assessment was done. This case study is a revisiting of the project, several years after its conclusion, through the documents created, the curriculum texts composed, and interviews with the participants in the project. Through analysis of these, lessons are drawn about the training of adult educators across differences of culture, language and class.