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Imagining Possible Worlds With Young Children, Families, and Teachers: Sustaining Language/s and Family Pedagogies
Sun, April 19, 2:15 to 4:15pm, Virtual RoomSession Type: Symposium
Abstract
These papers were authored by international researchers and community practitioners who are focused on early oral languages and communication of young children, their families and teachers. Our work honors the primacy of indigenous and heritage languages, cultures, and identities of young children and their families. Oral-language research is dominated by English-only-Eurocentric traditions, values and culture; a deficit approach to measuring language; and a readiness approach to school. Our collective research disrupts these traditions. We examine the impact of context, policy, family pedagogies, teacher education, and community initiatives on young emerging bilingual children. The researchers go beyond problem description by offering empirical exemplars of possible worlds in which children and families reclaim sovereignty in indigenous and heritage languages, lifeways, and learning.
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Context Matters: Historical, Political, and Pedagogical - Lesley Kay Rameka, University of Waikato; Shelley Stagg Peterson, OISE/University of Toronto
Te Rangatiratanga o te Reo: Sovereignty in Indigenous Languages - Mary Eileen Skerrett, Victoria University of Wellington; Jenny Ritchie, Victoria University of Wellington
Parents and Whānau as Experts in Their Worlds: Valuing Family Pedagogies in Early Childhood - Mary (Meg) M. Jacobs, Auckland University of Technology; Amanda White, University of Auckland; Nola Harvey, University of Auckland
Negotiating Space for Understanding Family Pedagogies in Teacher Education and Ongoing Professional Learning - Helen Hedges, University of Auckland; Sophie Alcock, Victoria University of Wellington
Ēhara tāku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini: The Power of a Collective - Emma K Quigan, The University of Auckland; Janet S. Gaffney, The University of Auckland; Rae Siilata, Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiārangi