Making Space for Young Children's Embodied Cultural Literacies and Heritage Languages with Dual Language Books

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aut.relation.journalThe Reading Teacher
dc.contributor.authorSi‘ilata, Rae K
dc.contributor.authorJacobs, Mary M
dc.contributor.authorGaffney, Janet S
dc.contributor.authorAseta, Martha
dc.contributor.authorHansell, Kyla
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-15T23:17:13Z
dc.date.available2023-05-15T23:17:13Z
dc.date.issued2023-03-27
dc.description.abstractThe Pasifika Early Literacy Project supports teachers to make space for the languages and cultures of Pacific children and families in early childhood settings in Aotearoa New Zealand. Dual-language books in five Pacific languages and English validate Pacific children's languages, literacies, and identities. We highlight teacher practices following professional learning and development workshops. Teachers are invited to challenge dominant monocultural notions of language and literacy that perpetuate educational inequities. Illustrations of early childhood teachers' innovations with Pacific children (aged 2–6 years) demonstrate how dual-language texts can be connected to families' embodied cultural literacies. Understandings of “literacy” and “reading” were expanded to include children's expressive modalities through oral and visual texts in heritage languages and English. This work highlights the role of teachers to connect, rather than replace, the worldviews, languages, and literacies of families with the pedagogical practices of early childhood settings.
dc.identifier.citationThe Reading Teacher, ISSN: 0034-0561 (Print); 1936-2714 (Online), Wiley. doi: 10.1002/trtr.2195
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/trtr.2195
dc.identifier.issn0034-0561
dc.identifier.issn1936-2714
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/16138
dc.languageen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.urihttps://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/trtr.2195
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject3901 Curriculum and Pedagogy
dc.subject3903 Education Systems
dc.subject39 Education
dc.subjectPediatric
dc.subject4 Quality Education
dc.subject1301 Education Systems
dc.subject1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy
dc.subjectEducation
dc.subject3901 Curriculum and pedagogy
dc.subject3902 Education policy, sociology and philosophy
dc.subject3903 Education systems
dc.titleMaking Space for Young Children's Embodied Cultural Literacies and Heritage Languages with Dual Language Books
dc.typeJournal Article
pubs.elements-id499113
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