Multiliteracies Pedagogy and Language Teaching

Sabine Siekmann is Professor of Linguistics and Foreign Languages at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She holds a PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Instructional Technology from the University of South Florida. Her research interests include bilingualism at home and at school, Indigenous language maintenance and revitalization, sociocultural theory and second language teaching, technology integration in language learning and teacher professional development. She has been involved in a series of large scale federally funded grant projects supporting Alaska Native (language) education through graduate education and materials development. Dr. Joan Parker Webster is a retired Associate Professor of Education at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), where she developed the Reading Endorsement for Alaska state licensure and the Master’s of Reading and Literacy program at UAF. Specializing in literacies and cross-cultural communications, she also taught courses in qualitative methodologies. Currently she is affiliated faculty in the Center for Cross-Cultural Studies at UAF. She also works as an educational research consultant, primarily as an evaluator for federally funded grant programs. Parker Webster continues to conduct ethnographic research and publish in the areas of qualitative and online research methodologies, multiliteracies, cross-cultural communication and Indigenous education.

Foreword.- Part I. Entangling Indigenous-western Onto-epistemological-methodological Frameworks.- 1. Entering the Field:  Teachers Doing Research in Indigenous Classrooms.- 2. Tracing the Development of an Indigenous-western Pedagogy.- 3. Participatory Teacher Action Research as Design Process.- PART II: Stories of Praxis.- 4. Multimodalities in Yup'ik Immersion.- 5. A Picture is Worth 1000 Words.- 6. Designing Past-Present-Future: Traditional Funds of Knowledge through Modern Technology.- 7. Reclaiming and Reinventing Indigenous Ways of Being-Knowing-Doing.- Part III. Ciuliamta Uyangtakut as Praxis.- 8. Toward Indigenizing Pedagogies in western schooling: A Conversation.