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Language Learning Using Pacific Picturebooks in an Aotearoa New Zealand Kindergarten

Language Learning Using Pacific Picturebooks in an Aotearoa New Zealand Kindergarten

Authors :
Janette Kelly-Ware
Nicola Daly
Lisa Teokotai
Katapukitemarae George
Danella Marjoriebanks
Emma Sealey
Source :
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood. 2024 49(3):264-277.
Publication Year :
2024

Abstract

Maori and Pacific learners in Aotearoa New Zealand have been identified as 'priority learners' by the Ministry of Education. The 'Pacific picturebook project' is ongoing research focussed on picturebooks selected to support the languages, cultures, and identities of Pacific learners in keeping with our government, Teaching Council and Ministry of Education expectations. This phase of the research was located in a kindergarten where teachers and children identify as Maori, Pakeha and from several Pacific Island nations. Teachers shared a selection of Pacific picturebooks with the children and recorded their own and the children's responses to them over a kindergarten term. Thematic analysis of data showed that Pacific picturebooks were significant pedagogical tools for language learning, to support identity, and to contribute to the kindergarten's emergent and localised curriculum. These findings clearly illustrate what pedagogy looks like when it is entrenched in key documents relevant to early learning in this country.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1836-9391 and 0312-5033
Volume :
49
Issue :
3
Database :
ERIC
Journal :
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
EJ1438608
Document Type :
Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1177/18369391241260070