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Harris, Pauline; Camaitoga, Ufemia; Brock, Cynthia H.; Diamond, Alexandra; McInnes, Elspeth; Neill, Bec – Reading Teacher, 2022
This article describes how young children and their families and community members came together with researchers to co-create books in children's languages about their worlds in Fiji, to foster children's multilingual literacies. The co-creation of these books in children's and families' Fijian homes and community settings connected with their…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Native Language, Books, Literacy
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Harris, Pauline; Brock, Cynthia H.; McInnes, Elspeth; Diamond, Alexandra; Neill, Bec; Carter, Jenni; Giannakis, Eleni – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2020
This article reports a three-year, cross-cultural study on co-constructing culturally sustaining pedagogic (CSP) practices with children and their families and communities, to foster children's literacy in their home languages and English in Fiji's settings. As we argue in this article, dialogue is a vital part of CSP -- specifically, authentic…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Preschool Education, Cultural Maintenance, Native Language