I had an interesting round of interviews on Tuesday. I met with a group of students as a group and a few individuals as well. They had a lot to say and expressed the fact that they were grateful that someone wanted to hear it.
I don’t want to give out too many details from the interviews until I have permission because I did not mention the blog to the students and I wouldn’t want to jeopardize their sense of confidentiality. Anyhow, the important thing is that my interviews were very fruitful and revealing of the nature of literacy learning here.
It’s a very complicated situation, mainly owing to the language issue, but also to socio-political remnants of Mauritius’ colonizers. Issues of art, philosophy, and literature are completely tangled up in ideas of race, religion, language and identity. One thing I will say is that dispite the wide variety of opinions in the group, when I asked “Is there a character in a book that you felt a strong connection to?” and “Do you every see yourselves in books?” the overwhelming response was “No.”
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