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The Perceptions of Indigenous Language and Cultural Synergy in Ghana and Sierra Leone: A Cross-Cultural Study [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
This study examined how young people perceive the revitalization of indigenous languages in multicultural environments. The research team gathered data from a stratified random sample of 200 participants hailing from diverse rural and urban areas in ...
Dickson Adom, Philip Foday Yamba Thulla, Ibrahim Mustapha Fofanah, Ralph Nyadu-Addo, John Kofi Brewu   +4 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Primacy of the Mother Tongue: Aboriginal literacy and Non-Standard English

The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2003
This article describes Indigenous Australian languages as having a history of pejoration dating from colonial times, which has masked the richness and complexity of mother tongues (and more recently developed kriols) of ...
Margaret Zeegers, Wayne Muir, Zheng Lin
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An assessment of indigenous nigerian languages and factors of language endangerment: can the indigenous languages survive?

Dialectologia: revista electrònica, 2014
Existen serias preocupaciones sobre la amenaza que experimentan las lenguas minoritarias y las indigenas en todo el mundo. Estas lenguas estan perdiendo rapidamente su dominio y funciones, lo que señalan su muerte inminente. Este estudio examina el grado de amenaza de un grupo de formas relacionadas con la oralidad ...
openaire   +2 more sources

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

Australian 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

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

Australian 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, Alysoun Boyle, Tania Sourdin, Bin Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of an indigenous African language scientific register for natural sciences: Focussing on challenges, opportunities, and perceptions

Perspectives in Education
IsiNdebele, as a language of science, remains underdeveloped. The lack of scientific terms hinders the teaching of natural sciences to isiNdebele speakers.
Thuli G Ntuli, Awelani V Mudau
doaj   +1 more source

Living indigenous languages ​​of Ecuador [PDF]

Alteridad : Revista de Educación, 2007
El Ecuador no comenzó hace doscientos años con la pseudoindependencia de los terratenientes criollos y grupos de poder. El Ecuador comenzó hace más de quince mil años.
Catalina Alvarez Palomeque, Luis Montaluisa Chasiquiza   +1 more
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The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe, Judith Bessant, Madeline Drake   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Giving Back to Our Community’: The Retention of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Disability Workforce in New South Wales, Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia require culturally responsive services. The Australian government has committed to establishing strategies to increase the size of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disability workforce; however, there is scant research on the factors influencing retention.
J. Gwynn, J. Gilroy, S. Peter, F. Talbot, K. Bulkeley, C. Alcorso, K. Gwynne, B. Rambaldini, A. Haines, M. Lincoln   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source