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Seeing with Our Own Eyes, Speaking in Our Own Voices: An Experiment in Language, Culture and Education in Papua New Guinea. Discussion Draft.

Delpit, Lisa D. – 1985

A recently implemented program in a decentralized provincial district of Papua New Guinea delays the entry of children into English-medium primary school for two years, during which time the children are taught literacy in a village-based school in their indigenous language, a pidgin, with the local customs and culture as the basis of the…

Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Experimental Programs, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries