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‘The Other Parent’: A Critical Policy Analysis of Fatherhood Discourses in the Australian Government's Paid Parental Leave Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Australian paid parental leave (PPL) government scheme aims to support working parents through financial assistance and the promotion of gender equality in caregiving responsibilities. However, the scheme's implementation has been critiqued for its gendered design, which marginalises fathers and reinforces traditional gender roles.
Lily Lewington, Bernadette Sebar, Jessica Lee   +2 more
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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
wiley   +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

Foreign languages’ acquisition: self learning and linguistic schools [PDF]

We examine patterns of acquiring non-native languages in a model with two linguistic communities with heterogeneous learning skills, where every individual faces the choice of self-learning the foreign language or acquiring it at a profit-maximizing ...
WEBER, Shlomo, GABSZEWICZ, Jean, GINSBURGH, Victor, LAUSSEL, Didier   +3 more
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Linguistic diversity and cognition

, 2017
Efforts to understand human cognition are intimately tied to a focus on diverse languages. Research in the last several decades has offered evidence that linguistic diversity helps to foster differences in nonlinguistic cognition across populations ...
Everett, Caleb
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Activités de développement langagier entourant l’utilisation d’albums plurilingues : effets sur le développement des habiletés narratives

Repères
This study showcases the effects of activities aimed at developing narrative skills, carried out alongside the use of plurilingual picture books, on the development of these skills in preschool education in a pluri-ethnic and plurilingual setting ...
Catherine Gosselin-Lavoie
doaj   +1 more source

Linguistic diversity in a new agenda for equity in science. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022
Couée I.
europepmc   +1 more source

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

L’arabe dialectal marocain, entre centralisation et territorialisation

Glottopol
In recent years, several attempts to normalize and standardize a "common", "uniform" or "central" Moroccan Arabic have emerged in Morocco. However, this language does not have an authentic existence given the multiplicity of Moroccan Arabic dialects.
Mourad El Baroudi
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Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss. [PDF]

Sci Adv, 2023
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