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Welcome to our Global Literacy Exchange Page!
A space of connection, collaboration and meaning-making, engaging Ghanaian students in the U.S. and students in Ghana to read and tell stories together.
Our Goals
Our aims for students participating in the program are to:
Engage with meaningful texts that represent the children’s diverse lives, places, and experiences
Increase their love of books, reading, and meaning-making through multimodal literacies
Discuss texts and literacy as a means to learn about oneself, others, and the world
Gain skills in cross cultural competence, including intercultural communication & global awareness
Developing writing identities by creating texts
Our Essential Questions
What can we learn about each other?
What assumptions do we have about each other? Are these true?
In which ways are our lives similar?
How can we enrich our understanding of the world together?
How can we create new worlds through writing?
How can we use storytelling as a tool to learn about any topic?
About us
The Boston University African Studies K-16 Education program in collaboration with the Zongo Story Project and author Emily Williamson Ibrahim are designing and implementing this Global Literacy Exchange, in partnership with two 3rd grade teachers at Abby Kelly Foster Charter School, in Worcester, MA and Friends of Libraries in greater Accra, Ghana. The program aims to bring together Ghanaian and U.S. students to learn from and about each other through literacy activities. The program is designed for 2nd-3rd grade students in the U.S. and 9-12 year old students who visit local libraries in Cape Coast.
Project Leads:
Winifred Obeng Kyeremeh
MacKenzie Woll
Lindsay Burns
Emily W. Ibrahim
Elsa Wiehe
The program is funded by U.S. Department of Education Title VI funding, as part of Boston University African Studies Center K-16 Education Program National Resource Center status, which has for central commitment to increase public knowledge about Africa in education and beyond. The views expressed in this website are of the program organizers and the children, and do not necessarily represent U.S. Department of Education perspectives.
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