[Edling] Extended Call for Chapters!

Tue May 24 20:38:21 UTC 2016

Ari,
Are you still accepting proposals for this book project?
Beth

Beth Lewis Samuelson
Associate Professor
Dept. of Literacy, Culture and Language Education
Indiana University School of Education
Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
Tel. 812-856-8256
Email: blsamuel at indiana.edu<mailto:blsamuel at indiana.edu>

On Feb 21, 2016, at 06:16, Ari Sherris <arieh.sherris at gmail.com<mailto:arieh.sherris at gmail.com>> wrote:

Extended Call for Chapters!
Early Writing in Indigenous Languages [Working Title]
The lion's share of the world's living languages face a bleak future. A growing consensus of linguists predicts that by the close of the 21st century 50-90% will disappear. Efforts to reverse this trend are underway worldwide. The purpose of this edited volume is to provide case studies of revitalization efforts at schooling early writing among children between approx. 3 and 12 years in lesser-known languages  worldwide (e.g., from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific).

Prospective authors are invited to submit a 500 word abstract and a short list of resources about the selected language and culture in APA style as well as the following information: Your full name in the order you might wish it to appear in a publication, the name of your institution or tribal affiliation, your full office or home address, your email, and your mobile phone number (with country code). Please include all of the requested information in one doc or docx.  Email Abstract to: Arieh.Sherris at gmail.com<mailto:Arieh.Sherris at gmail.com> with the following in the subject line: EARLY WRITING IN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ABSTRACT. Abstracts are due by March 15, 2016, but a call will remain open until 12-15 excellent abstracts are received.

First drafts of future papers (7000-9000 words, not including bibliography) from selected abstracts would be require within approx. 5-months of notification that your abstract has been accepted. Papers will go through double blind review.

In the interest of clarity and possible future comparative study, your chapter, if asked to write one, will require the following structure:

1. Brief introduction/rationale for paper

2. Brief history of indigenous culture & people

3. Brief description of the structure of the language

4. Description of revitalization efforts

5. Description of school context

6. Description of instructional writing practices

7. Description & discussion of early writing exploring writing development with writing samples from children; samples could be drawn from a subset of ages anywhere between 3 and 12 years of age

8. Promising exploratory directions for future revitalization efforts with respect to writing your language

9. Resources (APA style)
Editor
Ari Sherris is Visiting Fulbright Scholar (2015-16) at the University Education, Winneba, Ghana and Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. His research explores the intersection of oracy, literacy, and language revitalization. His publications appear in Classroom Discourse, Intercultural Education, the International Review of Education (UNESCO), the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, andPedagogies: An International Journal. His practitioner digests for language teachers appear with the Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C. His book Language Endangerment: Disappearing Metaphors and Shifting Conceptualizations (2015) is published with John Benjamins.

Ari Sherris
UEW J.W. Fulbright Visiting Scholar in Residence, Ghana
TAMUK Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education
https://tamuk.academia.edu/AriSherris
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