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Preserve And Disseminate
Photo from The Raízes da Vida KHouse,
Fortaleza, Brazil
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English speaking countries offer a huge volume
of multi-media contents through the Internet. It flows in waves to the most
remote areas of the globe, and covers all aspects of life, business, and
society. Its impact threatens to destroy cultural heritages, identities,
indigenous knowledge, and languages. Already, they claim three languages
die every day!
UNESCO says: "It is widely acknowledged nowadays that teaching in both the mother tongue and the official national language helps children to obtain better results and stimulates their cognitive development and capacity to learn." Creating matching contents in any aboriginal language may seem like a daunting task. The good news is that publishing aboriginal contents can now be done at an incredibly low cost. The challenge is to produce good contents to publish. Many hands are needed. An entire community must be mobilized. Youth must be involved: This lets us shoot several birds with one arrow: Youth will learn about the culture while generating contents, and actively publishing it. This same contents will be used to support their efforts to build friendships with peers elsewhere. It is a win-win situation. "Who are you?" - "Hi, this is me. This is the community in which I live. These are my rights, family, friends, and roots..." We propose the Who-Am-I? life training program as an element in your strategy:
Teachers will coordinate the collection, writeups, and subsequent publication of contents. They'll do because it enhances their teachings in the schools' curriculum. By giving students what they want, they'll come back to teachers requiring knowledge (to do their thing). Comes a new year, and a new Who-Am-I? schedule. New students are led to contents produced in preceding years. They will be asked to build on this resource. In this way, contents in your language will grow, almost organically... |
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