Event overview
Investigating Kurdish children’s Turkish language and literacy practices in a nursery in Turkey.
The presentation draws on Iskender's doctoral research which is an ethnographic investigation of how Kurdish (Kurmanji-speaking) preschool children in Turkey learn Turkish upon entering nursery. In this presentation, he will focus on teacher-led language and literacy activities, illustrating how the teacher models Turkish language use as well as the values and expectations of the curriculum. He argues that while actively supporting Turkish language and literacy learning upon entering nursery the teacher (a Kurmanji speaker herself) allows for a limited institutional space for the use of Kurmanji which is not officially recognised in the nursery school setting. The presentation interrogates the possibilities and limitations of teacher and pupil agency in a nursery context which associates speaking Turkish with Turkish national identity.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 11 Oct 2017 | 4:15pm - 5:30pm |
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