The ICT social inclusion among Orang Asli community in Gombak area

As Malaysia is moving towards k-economy and developed nation by 2020, there is a need for all its citizens to participate in this socio-economic development. Orang Asli often have been cited as introverts and lag behind compared to other races in Malaysia. Literatures indicate a few researches have been studied involving the Orang Asli but a dearth is found focusing on ICT education and Internet usage among the Orang Asli schoolchildren. This study aims to fill in this gap by investigating the computer and Internet usage among the Orang Asli schoolchildren in three schools in Gombak area which is close to International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) main campus. The survey findings indicate most of the respondents are familiar with computer and Internet but the level of usage varies. Most parents are lower-income earners and affordability to own personal computers become a main issue. Even though schools provide limited time allocations for the students to use computer laboratories, the students also visit cybercafés, friends and relatives’ houses to use computers and Internet

Circling the Cross: Bridging Native America, Education, and Digital Media

Part of the Volume on Learning Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital MediaTo paraphrase a Native elder, any road will get you somewhere. The question for Native America is, where will the information highway take them? As Native Americans continue to face challenges from the legacy of colonialism, new media provide both an opportunity and crises in education. Standardized education policy such as No Child Left Behind and funding cuts in social services inadvertently impact Net access and Indian education, yet alternative programs and approaches exist. It is necessary that programs conceptualize new media learning strategies within a historical context by being sensitive to the political and cultural connotations of literacy and technology in Native American communities. By encouraging the use of new media as a tool for grassroots community media and locally relevant storytelling, this chapter asks educators to consider an alternative epistemology that incorporates non-Western approaches to ecology and knowledge

Assimilation, Theory, Policy and Practice : The Native Welfare Council\u27s Experiment in Preparing Aboriginal Families at Allawah Grove for Assimilation 1961-1968

In the late 1950s, a community of Aboriginal people had formed a camp at ‘Allawah Grove\u27 in South Guildford, Perth. The public and the Western Australian Government considered them a nuisance, and wished to remove them from the area. But in 1960, a voluntary organization known as the Native Welfare Council offered to provide the Allawah Grove residents with supervision, housing and training. Their aim was to equip residents with the knowledge and skills that would enable them to live successfully as nuclear families in mainstream society. In the 1960s Aboriginal welfare policy was informed by social assimilation theory. Governments believed that providing Aboriginal people with the same opportunities that mainstream Australians enjoyed would allow them to achieve equality with the rest of the community. The Native Welfare Council\u27s view was that for Aboriginal people to be able to take advantage of these opportunities, they required training. So, they translated the government\u27s assimilation policy into practice at Allawah Grove providing residents with training in an encouraging, non-institutionalised environment. Allawah Grove residents were given the option of attending adult education classes and had their own representative body- the Allawah Grove Progress Association. To prepare Aboriginal people for living as a nuclear family in mainstream society, male residents were taught skills for employment and female residents learnt homemaking and childcare skills. For various reasons, training for female residents was more \u27successful\u27 than training for male residents. This disrupted the functional nature of the nuclear family, and thereby reduced the residents\u27 ability to live successfully in mainstream society. The Council\u27s aim had been to use Allawah Grove to prepare Aboriginal people for living in mainstream society. But the majority of Allawah Grove residents did not see their future in mainstream society, instead envisaging living permanently as an Aboriginal community at Allawah Grove

Plagio mal comunicado en las escuelas suecas

Aunque el plagio tiene una historia mucho más larga, muchos profesores de inglés han observado que la cantidad de plagio ha aumentado ligado al uso de Internet. El artículo comienza con una revisión de la literatura que demuestra que, aunque se ha prestado mucha atención a los estudiantes universitarios en entornos académicos, se ha prestado poca atención al plagio en las escuelas. Otros estudios indican que el plagio es más frecuente cuando las personas escriben en su L2 y cuando trabajan con fuentes en línea. En conjunto, la revisión sugiere que es necesario realizar estudios sobre el plagio en L2 en los centros escolares, en particular estudios en los que los alumnos trabajen con fuentes en línea en lengua inglesa. El artículo presenta un estudio en el que se entrevistó a alumnos de 14 a 17 años de centros de secundaria suecos sobre el uso de textos fuente en una clase de inglés. También se entrevistó a sus profesores y a profesores de secundaria. Un análisis fenomenológico de las entrevistas reveló un desajuste entre las instrucciones de los profesores, la comprensión de las instrucciones por parte de los alumnos y la interpretación de la conducta de copia por parte de los profesores. Las opiniones de los alumnos se basaban principalmente en las razones pedagógicas dadas por sus profesores para explicar por qué no debían copiar el trabajo de otras personas, más que en ideas relacionadas con la propiedad de las ideas. Los profesores entendían las actividades principalmente en términos de copieteo y pereza.Although plagiarism has a much longer history, many teachers of English have noticed that the amount of copying has increased alongside the use of the Internet. The paper begins with a review of the literature demonstrates that although much attention has been paid to undergraduates in academic environments, little attention has been paid to plagiarism in schools. Other studies indicate that plagiarism is more common when people are writing in their L2, and when working with online sources. Combined, the review suggests that studies of L2 plagiarism in schools are needed, particularly studies where pupils are working with English language online sources.The paper reports on a study in which pupils aged 14-17 in Swedish secondary schools were interviewed about the use of source texts in an English lesson. Their teachers and High School teachers were also interviewed. A phenomenological analysis of the interviews revealed a mismatch between the teachers’ instructions, the pupils’ understanding of theinstructions and the teachers’ interpretation of copying behaviour. The pupils’ opinions were mostly based on the pedagogical reasons given by their teachers to explain why they should not copy other people’s work, rather than on ideas related to the ownership of ideas. The teachers primarily understood the activities in terms of cheating and laziness

Assessing the evidence on Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes

Aboriginal australian; Social conditions; Economic condition

Making sacred: diasporic objects and places in contemporary arts practice

Through practice-led research, my thesis addressed the question - how might a sense of home and belonging be found through a contemporary art practice and in material form? From the perspective of an Eastern European born, Australian immigrant, and child of diaspora, my studio practice, sought to contribute to discussion surrounding identity, place, placelessness and displacement

Two Western Australian Primary Schools’ Responses to the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority Guidelines on internationalisation in schools

This study explores the extent to which two Western Australian primary schools are embracing internationalisation in response to the expectations set by the Australian Curriculum Assessment, and Reporting Authority (ACARA). Findings indicate that to some extent the two schools are internationalising their learning and teaching, curriculum and school activities but the focus is limited due to many intervening factors. The thesis makes recommendations for the improvement of internationalisation strategies in schools

Pearson\u27s Paradox : An Emergent Social Reality

In his speech The Light on the Hill Noel Pearson criticises the nature of contemporary social reality in Australia. In his view this social reality is co-dependent in portraying Indigenous Australians as victims and non-Indigenous Australians as guilty. The result has been the generation of a welfare mentality to the structural disadvantage of Indigenous Australians. I conclude that the debate Pearson has initiated is ongoing. This debate has adopted ideological overtones consistent with emphases on individual and community development and these emphases are emerging in policy. However I suggest that governments are seeking to divest responsibility for individual and community well being to those Indigenous Australians already constrained by relative structural disadvantage