Professorial Lecture | Picturebooks, pedagogies and plurilingualism by Professor Nicola Daly

'Picturebooks, pedagogies and plurilingualism: Changing linguistic landscapes one picturebook at a time' by Professor Nicola Daly. We often underestimate picturebooks, but the truth is they reflect what we want to pass on to our tamariki-mokopuna; they are incredibly powerful. Multilingual picturebooks offer many opportunities for readers to both see and hear themselves, and to be aware of the lives and languages of others. They provide opportunities for teachers to draw on the cultural and linguistic capital of the communities represented in their classrooms, and to explore what language is- how it is entwined with culture and identity. In this professorial lecture Nicola will share her journey from linguistics to multilingual children’s literature, exploring language awareness among teachers and children, analysing the design of bilingual picturebooks, and most recently working in a multidisciplinary team to explore Indigenous voices in children’s literature. #ForThePeople #KoTeTangata #UniversityOfWaikato #Education #Linguistics #Multilingual #Plurilingualism #PictureBooks #ChildrensLiterature #IndigenousVoices #EducationResearch