The Prairie Literacies Project was formed by a group of literacies researchers and teacher educators in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba and seeks to understand and promote expansive literacies across the prairies in light of a narrowing instructional context.
We understand literacies as multidimensional, multilingual, multimodal, material, embodied, situated, and relational. We are attuned to prairie literacies in context and celebrate the diversity of peoples, communities, and geographies across the region.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we live, learn, work, and gather on the traditional and ancestral lands of many Indigenous peoples. These lands are home to the Néhiyaw (Cree), Niitsitapi (Blackfoot), Nakoda (Stoney), Dene, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Anishinaabe (Ojibway/Saulteaux), Anishinaabeg, Ininiwak, Anisininewuk, Dakota Oyate, Inuit, and the Métis, including the Red River Métis.
As literacies educators and researchers, we recognize that literacies education has been used as a tool of colonization, and we acknowledge our responsibility to support ongoing work in truth, relationship, and reconciliation.
Partners & Support
This project is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
Institutional Support
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