Taking Care photo-essay book
The photo-essay book Taking Care: Sixteen women making a difference in the Marrickville community was the outcome of a community based collaboration between Marrickville Council, Marrickville writer Julia Richardson, photographer Bruce Daly, and Marrickville childcare workers.
Commissioned by Marrickville Council in 2010 the Year of Women in Local Government, Taking Care shares the personal stories of 16 Aboriginal and migrant women working in child care in Marrickville. It provides insight into who is caring for Marrickville's children, and how their cultural backgrounds directly inform the values and traditions imparted to the children
As a collection of stories, Taking Care highlights the wonderful of diversity of cultures, teaching styles and stories that Marrickville children are experiencing and, as a result, synthesizing into highly nuanced understandings of contemporary Australian culture in inner-city Sydney.
A PDF version of the book is available to download here.
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Download Taking Care flipbook
3MB, PDF file