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Co-creating an enabling reading environment for and with Namibian children

Authors:

Helvi Itenge-Wheeler,

Margot Brereton,

Heike Winschiers-TheophilusAuthors Info & Claims

PDC '16: Proceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference: Full papers - Volume 1

Pages 131 - 140

https://doi.org/10.1145/2940299.2940315

Published: 15 August 2016 Publication History

Abstract

Namibian children's appreciation of literature is falling behind. While children develop functional literacy, enough to search the web and read for information finding, their skills plateau due to their limited forms of reading. Thus this paper draws on a participatory approach with different stakeholders aiming to co-create a stimulating and enabling reading environment for Namibian children.

Four different participatory workshops were designed to discover ways to deepen the reading culture, in particular by exploring contexts in which children would read and also author books. Acknowledging the different roles of stakeholders in an ongoing national agenda of enhancing the Namibian reading culture, it becomes clear that the various aspirations of children as expressed in their designs need to be accounted for, interpreted and translated into a feasible plan of action. The paper outlines a way of using participatory design workshops at a number of levels to obtain design inspirations for further interventions towards enhancing kids' reading experiences.

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Co-creating an enabling reading environment for and with Namibian children
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. Participatory design
2. Social and professional topics
  1. User characteristics
    1. Age
      1. Children

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PDC '16: Proceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference: Full papers - Volume 1

August 2016

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ISBN:9781450340465

DOI:10.1145/2940299

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Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
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Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
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Anne Marie Kanstrup
E-learning lab, Department of Communication and Psychology, The Faculty of Humanities, Aalborg University
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Janet McDonnell
University of the Arts London, UK
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Maurizio Teli
Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Funchal, Portugal
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