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Transition From Primary to Secondary School: Igniting Attendance and Engagement Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students Through National Policy Reform

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Closing the Gap reform aims to address disparities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There are specific targets focussed on key educational transitions; yet, the transition to secondary education is not a targeted priority.
Azhar Hussain Potia, Kai W. Wheeler, Tracy Woodroffe, Karen Thorpe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Participatory Policy Development: Reflections on Designing the Strong Roots for Our Futures Program in Victoria

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy, Bhiamie Williamson, Jesse Williams   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘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
wiley   +1 more source

AmericasNLI: Machine translation and natural language inference systems for Indigenous languages of the Americas. [PDF]

Front Artif Intell, 2022
Kann K, Ebrahimi A, Mager M, Oncevay A, Ortega JE, Rios A, Fan A, Gutierrez-Vasques X, Chiruzzo L, Giménez-Lugo GA, Ramos R, Meza Ruiz IV, Mager E, Chaudhary V, Neubig G, Palmer A, Coto-Solano R, Vu NT.   +17 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Języki i kultury rdzenne Meksyku w przekładzie na język hiszpański: od rdzennej tradycji ustnej do hybrydycznej literatury dwujęzycznej

Przekładaniec
In the context of the existing cultural and linguistic asymmetry in Mexico, translation of literary texts from indigenous languages into the hegemonic Spanish is an expression of the struggle to ...
Iwona Kasperska
doaj   +1 more source

Sources of convergence in indigenous languages: Lexical variation in Yucatec Maya. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2022
Blaha Pfeiler B, Skopeteas S.
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Women from rural Guatemala who speak Mayan languages have reduced odds of diabetes, hypertension and obesity

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionIndigenous languages are integral to the individual and collective identity of humankind. Health benefits of speaking Indigenous languages have been demonstrated but may also be masked by various forms of linguistic and ethnic discrimination.
Stephen Alajajian, Anahí Venzor Strader, Anahí Venzor Strader, Yolanda Juarez Martin, Caitlin Scott, Peter Rohloff, Peter Rohloff   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Revitalizing Indigenous languages, cultures, and histories in Montana, across the United States and around the globe

Cogent Education, 2017
Many educators have sung the praises of Indian Education for All, Montana’s constitutional mandate, and heard the successes of Montana’s Indigenous language revitalization efforts which reverberate around the globe.
Jioanna Carjuzaa
doaj   +1 more source