海角社区 experts: International Literacy Day
Prof. Donna-Lee Smith,听听听, Faculty of Education
Expertise:听She has worked in various Indigenous communities for 25 years鈥攎ainly in the area of literacy, leading 听workshops and teaching courses where student teachers create children鈥檚 storybooks books in heritage languages; in Nunavik, for example, she worked 听with 2 Inuk co-teachers who are fluent in both English and Inuktitut.
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Prof. Robert Savage,听听, Faculty of Education
Expertise: In a 3 province study (Ontario, Quebec, Alberta) with approx 1,000 children, he is looking at different techniques ( including teaching children emotional and social literacy) that are geared towards promoting literacy and preventing reading difficulties through early identification and ongoing intervention with children who are at risk.
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Casey Burkholder,听, PhD student, Faculty of Education, is doing research 听with ethnic and linguistic minority youth in Hong Kong that explores the ways that schools further marginalize young people based on their language and literacy practices. Is also the Graduate Students鈥� Representative for the Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada.
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