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Life after herbarium digitisation: Physical and digital collections, curation and use

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Societal Impact Statement Collections of dried plant specimens (herbaria) provide an invaluable resource for the study of many areas of scientific interest and conservation globally. Digitisation increases access to specimens and metadata, enabling efficient use across a broad spectrum of research.
Alan James Paton   +39 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reflections on (de)colonialism in language documentation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
With origins in colonial logics and institutions, language documentation practices can reinforce colonial power hierarchies and norms in ways that work against the needs and values of Indigenous language communities.
Leonard, Wesley Y, Leonard, Wesley Y.
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Digitisation as archival intermediary: Quantifying and qualifying Greta B. Stevenson's mycological collector networks

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Mass digitisation of natural science collections and archives has increasingly become a priority for scientific heritage institutions. Here, we explore the potential of mass digitisation to improve our understanding of the nature and history of scientific collaboration. Focusing on mycologist Greta B.
Christopher Kreuzer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Colonialism, Post-colonialism

open access: yes, 2015
In the preface of the Wretched of the Earth, Jean Paul Sartre unintentionally provided a sketchy outline of colonialism by mentioning Europe’s accomplishment of Hellenizing the Asians and creating a “new breed, the Greco-Latin Negroes” (Fanon, 1963, p. 6)
Kalantidou, Eleni
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Looking backward to move forward: Enhancing metadata in scientific collections through interdisciplinary collaboration

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Early modern herbaria house important and useful data on historic environments. However, their contents are often inhospitable to scientific use. Despite this challenge, once their contents have been deciphered, such specimens present novel research opportunities.
Madeline E. White, Stephen A. Harris
wiley   +1 more source

The Invisible Colonialism :

open access: yesIkhtilaf
In The Age of AI and Our Human Future, Kissinger, Schmidt, and Huttenlocher contend that AI is poised to impose its own epistemic framework on human society, gradually conditioning individuals to accept algorithmically mediated realities as unquestioned
Khalid Abartal
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Proposing a Framework to Center Justice in Ambitious Science Teaching

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Though educators and researchers have developed shared theory and language for priorities necessary to disrupt the status quo toward more equitable science education, we lack a tool that organizes sets of teaching practices across an instructional unit to support enactment and rehearsal.
April Luehmann   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Climate Change Education Practices in Kalimantan Through Exploratory Field Research With Local Voices

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article is based on a study that examines the practices and perspectives of selected educational actors in Kalimantan, Indonesia, on climate change education. The region is highly affected by climate crises and holds global relevance for mitigation due to its tropical forests and peatlands.
Carla Hermanussen, Saritha Kittie Uda
wiley   +1 more source

Colonial Caring: A History of Colonial and Post-Colonial Nursing [PDF]

open access: yesNursing History Review, 2017
Helen Sweet, Sue Hawkins
openaire   +1 more source

“Taking Off the Rose‐Colored Glasses”: How Justice‐Centered Science Curricula Engages Prehealth Undergraduates' in Critical Consciousness

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Health disparities rooted in systemic oppression and perpetuated by implicit bias among medical professionals remain pervasive across North America. These inequities are often sustained by providers' limited awareness of social realities that shape the lives of people from marginalized communities.
Sabah K. Elias   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

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