Observation prompts

If you haven’t done it before, observe your children clients and their caregivers in relation to the topics of using the heritage language and plurilingualism, recognition and sense of belonging, caregiver-child relationship in learning processes and technologies usage in the learning process.

 

Observe if visitors from marginalized social conditions:

  • communicate with each other, within and outside the family context 
  • use one or more languages, focus especially in ethno-minor heritage language, even in residual forms or in a form of an accent in ethno-major language
  • situations of choices of communication language in case the clients use more than one language
  • feel comfortable, safe and welcomed in the community center
  • both children and caregivers are able to understand and follow the “rules of the house”, if not how do they deal with the preventive actions and sanctions
  • use technologies for education and another purposes

During the daily routine of the community center operation this can help to indirectly solicit your clients from marginalized social conditions to spontaneously lead the conversations on relevant issues:

  • making visible materials in different languages at once
  • letting clients know about your own linguistic and cultural background
  • talk about your own experience with languages and different cultures
  • follow up on cultural contents the clients themselves bring up (even though they may come from pop-culture or commercial sphere, that might seem to you not enough “educative”)
  • using together technologies and leading dialogue about it while using them



Zadnja sprememba: Sunday, 2. December 2018, 08:59 AM