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Social Relationships of Captive Bachelor Przewalski’s Horses and Their Effect on Daily Activity and Space Use

open access: yesAnimals
Understanding social relationships in at-risk species held in captivity is vital for their welfare and potential reintroduction. In social species like the Przewalski’s horse (Equus ferus przewalskii), daily time allocation and space use may be ...
Anastasiia Nykonenko   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

The adaptability of women’s captivity narratives in American literature

open access: yes, 2017
In this analysis, I explore several women’s captivity texts to show how the captivity narrative genre has adapted to the cultural needs of its readers and authors as well as what the creation of a captivity narrative means to those involved.
Rhodes, Ellen
core   +1 more source

Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source

Comportamento de predação por cutias (Dasyprocta sp.) (Mammalia, Rodentia) em cativeiro: considerações sobre reintrodução. Agouti (Dasyprocta sp.) (Mammalia, Rodentia) predatory behavior in capitivity: considerations about reintroduction. [PDF]

open access: yesRevista do Instituto Florestal, 2009
Oito cutias foram mantidas em umrecinto de 10 por 12 m, na chácara Santo Antônio,Campinas, SP. No mesmo recinto eram mantidasgalinhas adultas e cinco pintinhos devar. domestica .
Luiz Octavio MARCONDES-MACHADO
doaj  

Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Studies on the behavioural biology of Inia geoffrenses in captivity

open access: yes, 1996
This paper reported the various behaviours in two male Amaron dolphins, named "Vater" and "Baby", which had been kept at the Duisburg Zoo for 16 years. The behaviour of the dolphins in captivity is directly affected by the size of the pool.
Inst. Hydrobiol., Chinese Acad. Sci., Wuhan 430072, China   +2 more
core  

Captivity: From Babylon to Indian Country [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Literary historical overview of the genre of the captivity narrative in colonial North ...
Andrew Newman
core   +1 more source

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