The moral fabric of linguicide: un-weaving trauma narratives and dependency relationships in Indigenous language reclamation

Meissner, Shelbi Nahwilet

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“…From what the study has observed and stated above, the language related to ethnomathematics has suffered linguicide (Meissner, 2018). So, if the curriculum emphasizes on the use of a term which community members use to name these shapes, then teachers of numeracy concepts related to geometrical shapes will make an effort to go into the community and come up with names of these shapes.…”

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“…In the case of a square, it does not have a proper Silozi name. This reflects the effect of Silozi as an epistemicides which has helped to bury the local languages in the region, hence an epistemic therapy Royce (1973) and Saferstein (2006) identify as needed to help reemerge languages which have suffered linguicide (Meissner, 2018). Under these circumstances, this is where ethnomathematics as an epistemic therapy is needed to ensure when teaching the naming of shapes tas borrowed from a language which reflects how shapes are named in the community of the learner.…”

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“…Epistemic therapy is a necessity since language as a culture might have suffered cultural genocide, which Davidson (2012) considers as a "purposeful destructive targeting of out-group cultures so as to destroy or weaken them in the process of conquest or domination" (p. 1). Language as a component of culture is also destroyed and when it occurs with language, this phenomenon is labelled by Meissner (2018) as linguicide.…”

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Exploring numeracy teaching and learning by using ethnomathematics

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Kayangula

2023

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The purpose of this study was to explore the impact that the cultural or everyday practices of ethnomathematics of a particular cultural group will have if they are used in teaching and learning of numeracy concepts related to geometrical shapes. It explored cultural practices, artefacts, written, verbal or visual communication messages reflecting mathematics in order to see how they could best eliminate the problems learners encounter in the acquisition of numeracy language. Data was generated using observations, brainstorming and interviews. Based on this research, the impact of using ethnomathematics in numeracy teaching and learning brings in innumerable benefits. These include promoting deep learning and allows teachers to maka use of prior knowledge in the classroom. This allows learners to recall and relate to the concepts learnt and employ them in their daily activities so that they do not to remain inert. Another impact of interest was the reclaiming of names of geometrical shapes from certain languages which currently teachers are not aware of as they are overlooked. For instance when geometrical shapes were first discussed using local terminology, it made more meaning than when taught using English used as a medium of teaching and learning in the research area.

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