1 In Fiji -- 2 Language and literacy learning in multilingual settings -- 3 Conceptualising language, literacy and learning as socio-cultural practices -- 4 Research as transformative encounters in cross-cultural collaborations -- 5 Exploring stakeholders’ perspectives of young children’s multilingual literacy -- 6 In Duavata: Collaborating with children and families in an Indigenous Fijian semi-rural community -- 7 In Dovubaravi: Collaborating with children and families in an Indo-Fijian rural community -- 8 In Wavu: Collaborating with children and families in a culturally diverse community in an urban setting -- 9 Fostering children’s multilingual literacy in home and community settings -- 10 On effective community capacity development and sustainability.

This book offers a comprehensive report on a three-year, cross-cultural, critical participatory action research study, conducted in children’s homes and communities in Fiji. This project contributed to building sustainable local capacity in communities without access to early childhood services, so as to promote preschool children’s literacy development in their home languages and English. The book includes rich descriptions of the young children’s lived, multilingual literacy practices in their home and community contexts. This work advances research-based practices for fostering young children’s multilingual literacy and building community capacity in a post-colonial Pasifika context; further, it shares valuable insights into processes and complexities that are inherent to multiliteracy and cross-cultural research.