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Using Dual-Language Books to Preserve Language & Culture in Alaska Native Communities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
“Children learn their language on their mother’s lap.” This conventional wisdom from a Cup’ik Elder describes the approach used by many Alaska Native peoples to promote native language acquisition.
Bartles, Jonathan, Ohle, Kathryn
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Eurocentric Bias in Dysmorphology and Medical Genetics Education

open access: yes
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
D' Arcy B. Prendergast   +3 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

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

Challenges in Intellectualizing Sesotho for Use in Academic Publications

open access: yesJournal of Electronic Publishing
This paper explores challenges in intellectualizing Sesotho for academic works beyond literary-based theses. It also overviews resources for the intellectualization of official Indigenous languages of South Africa, focusing on national translation ...
Johannes Sibeko, Mmasibidi Setaka
doaj   +2 more sources

INTRODUCING JAVANESE WEBLOGS ENHANCES PARTICIPATION TOWARDS JAVANESE DISCOURSE [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Weblogs have powerful effects on the society, millions of people read blogs daily. English is the main language used, but indigenous languages including Javanese are also used to blog.
Sutomo, Johanes
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West African manuscripts in Arabic and African languages and digital preservation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
West African manuscripts are numerous and varied in forms and contents. There are thousands of them across West Africa. A significant portion of them are documents written in Arabic and Ajami (African languages written in Arabic script).
Ngom, Fallou
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How Do I Answer This? A Queer Critique of Australian Census Forms and the Reification of Cisheteronormative Families

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a critical examination of Australia's 2021 household, individual and interviewer census forms. Using a form‐led analysis, this research scrutinises the underlying cisheteronormative logic that implicitly shapes the Census process, from data collection to distribution of findings.
Xavier Mills, Sal Clark
wiley   +1 more source

Student responses to subtitled and dubbed educational content: Implications for university translanguaging practices

open access: yesTransformation in Higher Education
This article examines audiovisual translanguaging as a pedagogical strategy in South African universities, where students navigate tensions between English dominance and the institutional mandate to promote indigenous African languages.
Helena C. Kruger-Roux   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

English Studies as a Site for Healing: A Conversation about Place-Based and Indigenous Pedagogies in the English Classroom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article summarizes a roundtable discussion from the 2016 Alaska Native Studies Conference among professors and students from two English Studies courses at the University of Alaska Anchorage: History of the English Language and History of Rhetoric ...
Brook Adams, Heather   +5 more
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