Multiliteracies and family language policy in an urban Inuit community
peer reviewed This study investigates the intersection of family language policy with Indigenous multiliteracies and urban Indigeneity. It documents a grassroots Inuit literacy initiative in Ottawa, Canada and considers literacy practices among Inuit at a local Inuit educational centre, where mainta...
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ftunivluxembourg:oai:orbilu.uni.lu:10993/26009 2024-04-21T08:06:03+00:00 Multiliteracies and family language policy in an urban Inuit community Patrick, D. Budach, Gabriele Muckpaloo, I. 2013 https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/26009 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-012-9258-3 unknown urn:issn:1568-4555 https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/26009 info:hdl:10993/26009 doi:10.1007/s10993-012-9258-3 scopus-id:2-s2.0-84874020503 wos:000314764000004 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Language Policy, 12 (1), 47-62 (2013) Canada Family language policy Inuit literacy Multiliteracies Multimodality Urban Inuit Arts & humanities Languages & linguistics Arts & sciences humaines Langues & linguistique journal article http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 info:eu-repo/semantics/article peer reviewed 2013 ftunivluxembourg https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-012-9258-3 2024-03-27T14:11:08Z peer reviewed This study investigates the intersection of family language policy with Indigenous multiliteracies and urban Indigeneity. It documents a grassroots Inuit literacy initiative in Ottawa, Canada and considers literacy practices among Inuit at a local Inuit educational centre, where maintaining connections between urban Inuit and their homeland linguistic and cultural practices is a central objective. Using data from a participatory, activity-oriented, ethnographic project at an Inuit family literacy centre, we argue that state-driven language policies have opened up spaces for Indigenous-defined language and literacy learning activities that can shape and be shaped by family language policies. This has permitted some urban groups in Canada to define their own literacy needs in order to develop effective family language policies. Drawing on two Inuit-centred literacy activities, we demonstrate how literacy practices are embedded in intergenerational sharing of Inuit experience, cultural memory, and stories and how these are associated spatially, culturally, and materially with objects and representations. We thus show how Inuit-centred literacy practices can be a driving force for family language policy, linking people to an urban Inuit educational community centre and to their urban and Arctic Inuit families and homelands. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit University of Luxembourg: ORBilu - Open Repository and Bibliography Language Policy 12 1 47 62 |
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peer reviewed This study investigates the intersection of family language policy with Indigenous multiliteracies and urban Indigeneity. It documents a grassroots Inuit literacy initiative in Ottawa, Canada and considers literacy practices among Inuit at a local Inuit educational centre, where maintaining connections between urban Inuit and their homeland linguistic and cultural practices is a central objective. Using data from a participatory, activity-oriented, ethnographic project at an Inuit family literacy centre, we argue that state-driven language policies have opened up spaces for Indigenous-defined language and literacy learning activities that can shape and be shaped by family language policies. This has permitted some urban groups in Canada to define their own literacy needs in order to develop effective family language policies. Drawing on two Inuit-centred literacy activities, we demonstrate how literacy practices are embedded in intergenerational sharing of Inuit experience, cultural memory, and stories and how these are associated spatially, culturally, and materially with objects and representations. We thus show how Inuit-centred literacy practices can be a driving force for family language policy, linking people to an urban Inuit educational community centre and to their urban and Arctic Inuit families and homelands. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. |
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Multiliteracies and family language policy in an urban Inuit community |
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