What kind of pen do I need to use to write my culture and my language?
Through a form of narrative inquiry involving the use of vignettes and ruminations about present and past, the author examines the role(s) of orality, literacy, and aurality in the intergenerational transmission of his language and culture. Weaving together stories from childhood, memories, and tran...
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Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada
2011-05-01
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| Series: | Language and Literacy: A Canadian Educational e-journal |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/langandlit/index.php/langandlit/article/view/10271 |
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| author | Satoru Nakagawa |
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| description | Through a form of narrative inquiry involving the use of vignettes and ruminations about present and past, the author examines the role(s) of orality, literacy, and aurality in the intergenerational transmission of his language and culture. Weaving together stories from childhood, memories, and translations of his grandmother’s poetry, the author raises questions about how we, as Indigenous peoples, might ensure that we are able to teach our own next generations our spirits, hearts, being/knowing of the world and who we are as human beings now that oral cultures are being discarded--or worse, written down. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b9dc8f76fc764da58b982514e92693592022-12-22T01:57:54ZengLanguage and Literacy Researchers of CanadaLanguage and Literacy: A Canadian Educational e-journal1496-09742011-05-01131607110.20360/G23S3G10271What kind of pen do I need to use to write my culture and my language?Satoru Nakagawa0University of AlbertaThrough a form of narrative inquiry involving the use of vignettes and ruminations about present and past, the author examines the role(s) of orality, literacy, and aurality in the intergenerational transmission of his language and culture. Weaving together stories from childhood, memories, and translations of his grandmother’s poetry, the author raises questions about how we, as Indigenous peoples, might ensure that we are able to teach our own next generations our spirits, hearts, being/knowing of the world and who we are as human beings now that oral cultures are being discarded--or worse, written down.https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/langandlit/index.php/langandlit/article/view/10271narrative inquiryoralityliteracyauralityintergenerationalindigenous peoples |
| spellingShingle | Satoru Nakagawa What kind of pen do I need to use to write my culture and my language? Language and Literacy: A Canadian Educational e-journal narrative inquiry orality literacy aurality intergenerational indigenous peoples |
| title | What kind of pen do I need to use to write my culture and my language? |
| title_full | What kind of pen do I need to use to write my culture and my language? |
| title_fullStr | What kind of pen do I need to use to write my culture and my language? |
| title_full_unstemmed | What kind of pen do I need to use to write my culture and my language? |
| title_short | What kind of pen do I need to use to write my culture and my language? |
| title_sort | what kind of pen do i need to use to write my culture and my language |
| topic | narrative inquiry orality literacy aurality intergenerational indigenous peoples |
| url | https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/langandlit/index.php/langandlit/article/view/10271 |
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