Full Description
Exploring Indigenous writing and literacies across five continents, this volume celebrates the resilience of Indigenous languages. This book makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the contemporary challenges facing Indigenous writing and literacies and argues that innovative and creative ideas can create a hopeful future for Indigenous writing. Contributions following the themes 'Sketching the Context', 'Enhancing Writing', and 'Creating the Future' are concluded with two reflective chapters evidencing the importance of volume's thesis for the future of Indigenous writing and literacies. This volume encourages the development of research in this area, specifically inviting the international writing research community to engage with Indigenous peoples and support research on the nexus of Indigenous writing, literacies and education.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Indigenous Writing and Literacies: Perspectives from Five Continents
Coppélie Cocq and Kirk P.H. Sullivan
Part 1 Sketching the Context
2 "I've Admired Them for Doing so Well": Where to Now for Indigenous Languages and Literacies?
Nathan John Albury
3 Indigenous Education: Affirming Indigenous Knowledges and Languages from a Turtle Island Indigenous Scholar's Perspective: Pikiskēwinan (Let Us Voice)
Laara Fitznor
4 Literacy Proficiency among Students in Aotearoa-New Zealand: Why the Gap between Māori and Pākehā?
Dean Sutherland
Part 2 Enhancing Writing
5 Indigenous Storytelling and Language Learning: Digital Media as Vehicle for Cultural Transmission and Language Acquisition
James Barrett and Coppélie Cocq
6 Enhancing Information Accessibility and Digital Literacy for Minorities Using Language Technology—the Example of Sámi and Other National Minority Languages in Sweden
Rickard Domeij, Ola Karlsson, Sjur Moshagen and Trond Trosterud
Part 3 Creating the Future
7 Teachers, Textbooks, and Orthographic Choices in Quechua: Bilingual Intercultural Education in Peru and Ecuador
Nancy H. Hornberger and Nicholas Limerick
8 Researching Writing Development to Support Language Maintenance and Revitalization Design and Methodological Challenges
Hanna Outakoski, Eva Lindgren, Asbjørg Westum and Kirk P.H. Sullivan
9 Indigenous Literacy in South Africa: an Argument for Psycholinguistically Responsive Teaching
Mark de Vos
Part 4 Reflections
10 A Coda and a Preface
Shelley Stagg Peterson
11 Education is Not Sufficient—Exploring Ways to Support and Research Indigenous Writing and Literacies
Kirk P.H. Sullivan, Virginia Langum and Coppélie Cocq
Index
