Fostering Young Children’s Literacy in Home and Community Settings

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Harris, Pauline Diamond, Alexandra Neill, Bec McInnes, Elspeth Brock, Cynthia Camaitoga, Ufemia
Copyright Year	2020
Description	Framed by sociocultural understandings of literacy and principles of culturally sustaining pedagogy, this chapter details a three-year critical participatory action research study in three Fijian communities wherein researchers worked collaboratively with young children and their families and communities to develop culturally responsive and sustaining strategies that fostered children's literacy in their heritage languages and English. The chapter is structured around ten principles of culturally sustaining pedagogy that focus on: community languages, community cultures, community ways, community inclusion, community modes, community relevance, community identities, community agency, ethics in communities, and assessment in community contexts. We present practices from the three focus communities associated with each of the aforementioned principles of culturally sustaining pedagogies. We end this chapter discussing the impact and evaluation of this work as well as implications of this work for the field. Book Name: Literacy Across the Community
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Ending Page	88
Page Count	16
Starting Page	73
DOI	10.4324/9781003031550-9
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2020-12-17
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: Literacy Across the Community Social Work Children Principles of Culturally Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy Literacy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter