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Day 5—Saturday, January 15

The Child: Language, Writing, and Education

8:45–10:45 a.m. 34. ANEWTI 1: Developing a Teacher’s Institute at Florida International University

*Carole Boyce Davies
Florida International University
“Teaching for Transformation in the African Diaspora”

Keshia N. Abraham
Florida International University
“Working from Within: Using Popular Education to Engage African Diasporic Women and Their Words”

Linda Spears-Bunton
Florida International University
“A Literacy Gathering: Adolescents of the African Diaspora Engaging Cultural Consciousness”


35. African Language and Literary Education for Children

Tecle Ghebremuse
University of Asmara
“Language and Child Education”

Martha Wagar Wright
University of Pennsylvania
“Classroom Emergent Literary Practices in Postcolonial Eritrea”

*Chefena Hailemariam
University of Asmara
“Language and Primary Education in Eritrean: Implications for Language Policy”


36. The Power of African Orature for Children

*Ogonna C. Anaagudu Agu
University of Calabar, CRS
“Child-Language, Poetry, and the Development of African Languages”

Osayimwense Osa
The Pennsylvania State University
“Edo Oral Tradition for Children and Young People”

Martha Bragin
“One Child Soldier: Narrative as Symbolic Healing”




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