Regions: North Slave Region
Principal Investigator: | Stagg Peterson, Shelley (3) |
Licence Number: | 17034 |
Organization: | OISE/University of Toronto |
Licensed Year(s): |
2024
2023
2022
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Issued: | May 13, 2022 |
Project Team: | Nazila Eisazadeh |
Objective(s): To develop a toolkit of theoretical approaches, practices, and tools for supporting Indigenous children’s language, literacy, and cultural knowledge.
Project Description: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5232. Over the next seven years and using collaborative action research methods, research practitioners (e.g., early childhood educators, teachers, parents/caregivers, and community members) from Indigenous communities in Canada and abroad will work with university researchers to develop a toolkit of theoretical approaches, practices, and tools for supporting Indigenous children’s language, literacy, and cultural knowledge. Collaborative action research will be conducted by six Local Partnership Teams (LPT), led by lead research practitioners from Indigenous communities and the co-applicants and partners, and including approximately 6-7 research practitioners in each community (approximately 90 in total across 14 communities). Four to five times each year, team members will visit the northern Indigenous communities that are part of their LPT. Du... Show more