NEWS With a special interest in the revitalization of indigenous language and culture in the North, Sarah McGregor from Canada is in Umeå under the North2North exchange programme to expand her training.
Sarah McGregor
ImageSandra Lundström– I applied for the exchange because I wanted to expand and share my education and training that are culturally and academically relevant for Northern communities around the world, says Sarah.
The culture has been taken away from a lot of people and I want to be part of the solution
Sarah is a second-year student taking the Early Childhood and Childcare Diploma at Aurora College in Yellowknife in Canada. That Umeå would become the destination for her studies abroad is partly due to her involvement in the Northern Oral Language and Writing through Play (Now Play) which Umeå University is a partner to throught he research project Play as a tool for language and literacy learning in the Sami classroom. One of the goals of the Now Play project is to support Indigenous children’s Indigenous language and cultural learning and their writing.
– The culture has been taken away from a lot of people and I want to be part of the solution, says Sarah.
The Now Play project includes early childhood educators, teachers, parents, community members as well as researchers in Canada, New Zealand, and Sweden. During her stay here Sarah has visited a primary school in Lycksele and will do presentations on the Now Play topic.
At Umeå University, Eva Lindgren and Hanna-Máret Outakoski is involved in Now Play.