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The final USP Linguistics webinar is on today 30 September, 4pm Fiji/Kiribati time (UTC +12). The session is on community led initiatives for language(s), literacy and learning. All welcome! Zoom link in alt text. #PacificLanguages #Linguistics #PNG #SolomonIslands #Vanuatu #Fiji

Date: Wednesday 30 September. 4pm-6pm Fiji time (+12GMT)
Zoom: https://usp-fj.zoom.us/j/81725129538?pwd=cSPuuVPTF6XDh6PI2Ts5D89KB8BZv9.1
Passcode: Q2@bkZh4#
Title: Community led initiatives for language(s), literacy and learning
Abstract: This webinar focuses on community led initiatives that support language(s), literacy and learning. While several previous webinars of this series have paid attention to government initiatives and ministerial commitments to languages and cultures in education, this session spotlights some of the more community-led and/or grassroots approaches operating in this space. Each panellist brings unique experiences to the discussion as they highlight what works and doesn’t work in their own community, and how to sustain successes. The session is deliberately skewed towards the highly multilingual and multicultural countries of the Southwest Pacific, where the immense diversity is sometimes considered a complexity in formal planning processes. While this complexity should not be underestimated, the session shows how community led initiatives work precisely because they are grounded in local knowledge and ways of being and doing.
Panellists
Dr. Kilala Devette-Chee (Papua New Guinea National Research Institute)
Mr. Armstrong Malau (Totono Vurës, Vanua Lava, Vanuatu)
Ms. Nola Turner-Jensen (West Galari Wiradyuri Traditional Owners Corporation, Australia)
Ms. Mariana Waqa (Vunilagi Book Club, Fiji)
Dr. Alpheaus Graham Zobule (Kulu Language Institute, Solomon Islands)
Moderator: Associate Professor Jeremy Dorovolomo (USP, Discipline of Education)

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