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Early Childhood Language Education and Literacy Practices in Ethiopia Perspectives from Indigenous Knowledge, Gender and Instructional Practices

This edited volume explores how indigenous knowledges and practices can be instrumental in improving literacy outcomes and teacher development practices in Ethiopia, aiding children's long-term reading, and learning outcomes. The chapters present research from a collaborative project between Et...

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Other Authors: Weldemariam, Kassahun (Editor), Sandvik, Margareth (Editor), Yigezu, Moges (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 2024
Series:Routledge Research in Language Education
Subjects:
Education
Primary & middle schools
Teaching of students with English as a second language (TESOL)
Anywaa
Bias
Content analysis
dichotomy
domain
Early grade
Ethiopia
Ethiopian learners
Evaluation
early grade literacy
early grade reading instruction
empathy
expression
family
gender
Home Environment
Interpretative
lexicon
mapping
metaphor
Phonological awareness
patriarchal
patrilineal
pedagogy
phonological awareness instruction
reading challenges
reading competence
School Environment
Stereotype
sex
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Summary:This edited volume explores how indigenous knowledges and practices can be instrumental in improving literacy outcomes and teacher development practices in Ethiopia, aiding children's long-term reading, and learning outcomes. The chapters present research from a collaborative project between Ethiopia and Norway and demonstrate how students can be supported to think pragmatically, learn critically and be in possession of the citizenship skills necessary to thrive in a multilingual world. The authors celebrate multilingualism and bring indigenous traditions such as oracy, storytelling, folktales to the fore revealing their positive impact on educational attainment. Addressing issues of language diversity and systematic ignorance of indigenous literacy practices, the book plays a necessary role in introducing Ethiopia's cultural heritage to the West and, hence, bridges the cultural gaps between the global north and global south. Arguably contributing one of the first publications on early literacy in Ethiopian languages, this book will appeal to scholars, researchers and postgraduate students studying the fields of early years literacy and language, indigenous knowledge and applied linguistics more broadly.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (214 p.)
ISBN:9781003424956
9781000985894
9781032544564
9781032534428
Access:Open Access

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