Representing the Stolen Generations in the National Museum of Australia

The removal of Indigenous children from their parents has been part of the colonising relations of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people since the earliest days of the British occupation of Australia. The National Museum of Australia is beginning the process of developing a collection of objects that will enable it to tell this significant story.The paper will look at this curatorial process of ‘remembering’. It will cover such issues as the structure of the Museum; the particular nature of the Indigenous section and its aims; the contested identity of an Indigenous object; relationships established between Museum staff and the community; the ‘implied contract’ of trust established with this community in order to tell their stories; and the ‘object as witness’ and the ‘object as betrayer’

On Teaching Teachers

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To Listen Differently, Away from Sonic Certitude: Some Propositions, Some Questions

In this piece, we move through propositions that invite an opening up to how, if at all, an abolitionary listening might take place. The “we” we use is intended to be multi-directional and polyphonic. It is a “we” we use as authors, as readers, and as listeners. Our thinking with and listening to the “uncapturable” seeks to unrepresent monological and univocal narratives of intelligibility, rationality, and social consensus. Rather than strain a hearing, we worry and listen to the very register and sonics of (a) hearing (determinacy, judgement, autonomy). Drawing from the writings and sonic articulations, undulations and intervallic cries of different thinkers and musicians we undo the certainty of voice and sound that the law predicates itself upon, and surrender to unanticipated openness

The Poetics of Traditional Ghanaian Beads

The use of beads in Ghana is a site for a robust cultural meaning-making Beads have been very popular in the past and are growing stronger in popularity with modernity to the extent that their modern meanings seem to be eclipsing the traditional ones This paper takes us back to their traditional meanings by examining closely their relationship with the wearer Using qualitative instruments of research methodology basically through interviews and participant observation this paper by examining the bead as a cultural text identifies two main relationships between the bead and the wearer the synecdochic and the metonymic relationships Using mainly linguistic theories to interrogating these relationships the paper relying on the entextualization theory of Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban and the performance theory of Richard Bauman discovers that in addition to being objects of aesthetics as the modern meanings mainly suggest the bead has very important traditional meanings The paper also demonstrates that where the bead is placed on the body is a function of traditional meanings Again when the bead is used is also contingent upon traditional meaning

Think Out Loud: PSU Brings College Classes to Oregon’s Women’s Prison

The educational opportunities for men who are incarcerated in Oregon’s prison system have been very limited. But for those incarcerated at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, there were no college classes offered until 2019. That’s when Portland State University associate professor Deb Arthur worked with the Department of Corrections to bring classes to the state’s only women’s prison. The Higher Education in Prison program began with a one-year, 15-credit, interdisciplinary course designed to meet PSU’s first year general education requirements. The hope is that once these students are released, they will continue taking classes and get a degree. The higher ed program has been growing with additional funding. We learn more from Arthur and from Lanelle Rowe, who took PSU college classes and is now in the process of creating a new life after her release last year

Jewellery Education in Ghana: A Comparative Analysis of School-Based and Apprenticeship Programmes

Acquiring jewelry education to become a jeweler in Ghana is either by School-Based or Apprenticeship A concern expressed by some jewelry industry practitioners is that most students who acquire jewelry education through School-Based in Ghana are unable to practice as jewelers because there is a mismatch between skills that students acquired while in school and the jewelry industry s needs Correspondingly Jewelry Apprenticeship has also saw a decline in patronage in recent times due to lack of regulatory framework which has led to some Master and Apprentice Jewelers exploiting the training process This study sought to conduct a comparative analysis to establish the similarities and differences that exist between these two Jewelry programmes The study adopted the Mix Methods research approach with descriptive and evaluation as the research methods used The researchers used Purposive and Snowball sampling techniques to draw a sample size of 300 Data collection tools used were observation interview and questionnair