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Wikipedia and indigenous language preservation: analysis of Setswana and Punjabi languages

Frontiers in Communication
The survival of a language is important for several reasons, some of which are to maintain cultural identity, tradition and wisdom. Therefore, people always try to protect their cultural identity, tradition, and wisdom, thus preserving and promoting ...
Shahid Minhas, Abiodun Salawu
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Eurocentric Bias in Dysmorphology and Medical Genetics Education

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
D' Arcy B. Prendergast, Emma Sullivan, Michael P. Mackley, Hanna Faghfoury   +3 more
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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Foundation Phase student teachers' views towards learning isiXhosa in the B Ed Teacher Education programme

Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2015
Teacher Education programmes in South Africa are mandated by the Minimum Requirements for Teacher Education Qualifications (MRTEQ) framework to ensure that students can converse competently in one of the indigenous languages. Therefore an opportunity to
Mayaba, Nokhanyo Nomakhwezi
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Multiply Marginalized: Indigenous Deaf Students’ Experiences in Higher Education

Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 2020
While there is a body of literature about the experiences of Indigenous college students, there is a complete lack of research on Indigenous Deaf college students (enrolled in either traditionally Deaf colleges, predominantly hearing colleges, or a ...
Melanie McKay-Cody
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National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

Australian 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, Tanya A. Serry, Jennifer Buckingham, Lorraine S. Hammond, Stephen Dinham, Eamon Charles, Tessa A. Weadman, Nathanial R. Swain, Susan Hiland, Tessa Daffern   +9 more
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian 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, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
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English acculturation in food and coffee shop naming: Examining its impact on local languages

Studies in English Language and Education
The proliferation of the English language has resulted in the blending of the English language and culture into the national and indigenous languages of emerging countries, including Indonesia. Although most people in North Aceh, Indonesia, are Acehnese,
Zurriyati Zurriyati, Fadhlur Rahman, Ella Yuzar, Alemina Br. Perangin-angin   +3 more
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian 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
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Persistence in Indigenous language work during the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]

AlterNative (Nga Pae Maramatanga (Organ)), 2022
Chew KA, McIvor O, Hemlock KK, Marinakis A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source