The Writers' Summit - Negotiating a Black Language in Children’s Literature
Craft of Writing
Negotiating a Black Language in Children’s Literature
Saturday, June 18, 2016
10:00am 11:15am
This panel examines Black language in children’s literature, with an emphasis on contemporary practices for writing and teaching Black English in collaboration with cultural communities, preserving and celebrating regional languages, and transferring spoken language onto the printed page. The languages and cultural practices of Nova Scotia’s historic Black communities drive the presenter’s queries: What techniques should be championed when transferring a spoken language onto the printed page? How does a linguistic variation approach to instruction build student agency and academic achievement? How might provincial ministries and departments of education address curricula and teaching practices to better support students’ home languages?
Participants:
Downey
Shauntay Grant (Moderator)
Tom Henderson
Rachel Ross-Mantley