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Lavoie, Constance; Mark, Marie-Paul; Jenniss, Brigitte – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2014
This article presents a community-based pedagogical initiative for teaching vocabulary. The research took place in the Innu community of Unamen Shipu in northern Quebec. The study introduced a teaching method grounded in Indigenous knowledge theory that exemplified the multiliteracies pedagogy principles. This exploratory study used participatory…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Multiple Literacies, Indigenous Knowledge
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Streelasky, Jodi – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2008
Makin and Jones Diaz (2002) suggest that young children's early literacy is most strongly supported when early childhood educators, children's families, and the wider community develop shared understandings about literacy--what counts, what is valued and validated, and whose voices are heard and whose voices are silent. Researchers such as Haas…
Descriptors: Written Language, Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries