Northern Oral Language and Writing Through Play

Welcome/Ahaaw

Built on previous project (2013–2020), the Northern Oral Language and Writing through Play (NOW Play) partnership has expanded to include early childhood educators, teachers, parents/caregivers and community members from Indigenous communities, as well as university researchers in Canada, New Zealand and Sweden. Our goals are to:
  • improve Indigenous children’s educational achievement and enhance their Indigenous language and cultural knowledge;
  • contribute to theory in Indigenous education, early childhood education, and language and literacy learning and pedagogy;
  • strengthen and sustain research and teaching capacity in northern Indigenous communities

Our website introduces you to our team and the ongoing work of the NOW Play project, from its early days to the present.

      

Land Acknowledgment

We wish to acknowledge that our NOW Play project operates on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Anishinabek Nation and the Huron-Wendat Nation, who have been the stewards of this land from time immemorial. As Treaty 13 members with the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, we have shared responsibility to sustain, respect and care for the land and to live in a good way with First Nation, Inuit and Métis communities who continue to thrive and work towards a better future.