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SUMMARY:Insight: Children’s perspectives of literacy in northern Ghana
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]\npresented by Brendan Rigby\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]24 May – 4 June 2016\n\nhours:\nTuesday – Friday 11am to 5pm\,\nSaturday 12pm to 4pm\nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]\nThis exhibition challenges viewers to think differently about what literacy means\, how it is used\, and what we know about it. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″]Brendan Rigby\, One of the children practising using a camera for the first time\, Botingli\, northern Ghana\, photographic print \nBrendan Rigby\, 5 of the participating children from Botingli\, northern Ghana\, photographic print \nFatahiya\, A selfie taken of her hand as she is writing in class\, Botingli\, northern Ghana\, photographic print \nYakubu\, The facilitator assisting Yakubu's classmate read a passage from their text book\, Bunglung\, northern Ghana\, photographic print \nBrendan Rigby\, Two of the participating girls presenting their favourite photographs at a community exhibition. Botingli\, northern Ghana\, photographic print \n[/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1451285630039-f4b33ad9-e290b1db-6de15320-4ad7″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]There are an estimated 58 million children around the world who are out of school. These children and their families are usually thought of as poor\, uneducated\, and non-literate. This exhibition challenges viewers to think differently about what literacy means\, how it is used\, and what we know about it. \nIt presents a small selection of over 4\,000 photographs taken by 10 out of school children from two rural communities in northern Ghana. The children are between the ages of 8-12 years\, with five girls and five boys participating. At the time\, they were also attending a semi-formal literacy and numeracy program that aimed to transition into the formal school system after nine months. Despite this enrolment\, they were still considered “out of school”. \nThese children participated in doctoral research undertaken by Brendan Rigby\, at the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education. This exhibition is part of his research dissemination efforts\, using the photographs as a way to not only communicate the data\, but to involve a broader audience in its analysis\, interpretation\, and viewing. \nPhotography and photographs can go beyond contexts\, rematerialising digitally and physically around the world. However\, in academic research\, photographs rarely find their way beyond research articles and books. By recontextualising a sample of the children’s photographs\, this exhibition invites the viewer to think differently about what it means to be out of school\, and the extraordinary capabilities and literacies of young children around the world.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist’s Bio” tab_id=”1451285630325-09def419-bb74b1db-6de15320-4ad7″][vc_column_text]Brendan Rigby is an international education specialist and researcher\, currently completing his PhD at the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education. He co-founded WhyDev\, an Australian non-profit dedicated to getting international development right. Brendan’s research focuses on the use of participatory visual methods\, namely photography\, to document and explore out of school children’s literacy practices. \nHe has worked for UNICEF Ghana\, StartSomeGood\, and Macquarie University and has also been an education consultant for Plan International\, Engineers Without Borders Australia\, and UNICEF.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/insight-childrens-perspectives-literacy-northern-ghana/2016-05-24/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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