Young children’s language socialisation in a small, rural Indo-Fijian community in Fiji /
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2022
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Diamond, Alexandra
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This qualitative study used decolonising methodology and ethnographic methods to investigate how young children in a small, rural Indo-Fijian community in Fiji were learning their community’s linguistic, social and spiritual ideologies and practices. It found children’s elders used and transformed inherited familial and spiritual ideologies to deploy rich, multimodal, highly contextualised situation-centred and child-centred linguistic practices. Young children drew on these resources to participate in multiparty, language-imbued familial routines and play, and thereby learn language and their culture. The study contributes new knowledge about how young children can learn to address babies with baby talk, openly interpret others’ thoughts, appropriately deploy spiritual practices and relational names, and contribute to resilient communities in colonised, marginalised, diasporic contexts.
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University of South Australia. UniSA Education Futures.
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UniSA Education Futures
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Thesis (PhD(Education)Curriculum, Education Studies)(DUCIER)--University of South Australia, 2022.
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Copyright 2022 Alexandra Diamond
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1 ethesis (xv, 263 pages) :
colour illustrations, colour photographs.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-259 )
colour illustrations, colour photographs.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-259 )
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