42 research outputs found
Review of Presumed Incompetent: the Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia edited by Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs et al.
Review of Presumed Incompetent: the Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia edited by Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs et al
Review of Entangled Subjects: Indigenous / Australian Cross-Cultures of Talk, Text and Modernity by Michele Grossman.
Review of Entangled Subjects: Indigenous / Australian Cross-Cultures of Talk, Text and Modernity by Michele Grossman
Review of Am I Black Enough For You? By Anita Heiss
Review of Am I Black Enough For You? By Anita Heis
Review of Entangled Subjects: Indigenous / Australian Cross-Cultures of Talk, Text and Modernity by Michele Grossman.
Review of Entangled Subjects: Indigenous / Australian Cross-Cultures of Talk, Text and Modernity by Michele Grossman
Book review: In teachers we trust: the Finnish way to world-class schools by Pasi Sahlberg and Timothy D. Walker
In their book In Teachers We Trust: The Finnish Way to World-Class Schools, Pasi Sahlberg and Timothy D. Walker draw on seven key principles from the Finnish education system that can help build inclusive and thriving school communities, positioning trust as the key ingredient for educational excellence. The book offers an accessible, relatable and timely contribution to the field of education, particularly teacher professional learning, writes Maja Milatovic. In Teachers We Trust: The Finnish Way to World-Class Schools. Pasi Sahlberg and Timothy D. Walker. W.W. Norton & Company. 2021
Book review: In teachers we trust: the Finnish way to world-class schools by Pasi Sahlberg and Timothy D. Walker
In their book In Teachers We Trust: The Finnish Way to World-Class Schools, Pasi Sahlberg and Timothy D. Walker draw on seven key principles from the Finnish education system that can help build inclusive and thriving school communities, positioning trust as the key ingredient for educational excellence. The book offers an accessible, relatable and timely contribution to the field of education, particularly teacher professional learning, writes Maja Milatovic. In Teachers We Trust: The Finnish Way to World-Class Schools. Pasi Sahlberg and Timothy D. Walker. W.W. Norton & Company. 2021
Critical Pedagogies Symposium: A space for dialogue to challenge intersecting oppressions in academia
Lena WĂ„nggren and Maja Milatovic provide an overview of a recent interdisciplinary symposium aimed at tackling issues of racism, sexism, ableism, classism and numerous other intersecting oppressions in academia. More productive, feminist and antiracist spaces are needed in which to meet, discuss and organise, in order to strategise around and against the marketisation of higher education in an inclusive manner
Book review: growing up Aboriginal in Australia edited by Anita Heiss
With the edited collection Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia, Anita Heiss brings together a range of multivocal, heterogeneous and deeply compelling contributions from 51 Aboriginal writers reflecting on their experiences of growing up in Australia. This is a valuable resource for those wanting to listen to, learn from and better understand the diverse experiences and perspectives of Aboriginal people in Australia, finds Maja Milatovic, and will also prompt many readers to consider their own implication in unequal, imperialist power structures that continue to impact on everyday lives
Reclaimed genealogies: reconsidering the ancestor figure in African American women writersâ neo-slave narratives
This thesis examines the ancestor figure in African American women writersâ neoslave
narratives. Drawing on black feminist, critical race and whiteness studies and
trauma theory, the thesis closely reads neo-slave narratives by Margaret Walker,
Octavia Butler, Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison and Phyllis Alesia Perry. The thesis aims
to reconsider the ancestor figure by extending the definition of the ancestor as
predecessor to include additional figurative and literal means used to invoke the
ancestral past of enslavement. The thesis argues that the diverse ancestral figures in
these novels demonstrate the prevailing effects of slavery on contemporary subjects,
attest to the difficulties of historicising past oppressions and challenge post-racial
discourses.
Chapter 1 analyses Margaret Walkerâs historical novel Jubilee (1966),
identifying it as an important prerequisite for subsequent neo-slave narratives. The
chapter aims to offer a new reading of the novel by situating it within a black
feminist ideological framework. Taking into account the novelâs social and political
context, the chapter suggests that the ancestral figures or elderly members of the
slave community function as means of resistance, access to personal and collective
history and contribute to the self-constitution of the protagonist. The chapter
concludes by suggesting that Walkerâs novel fulfils a politically engaged function of
inscribing the black female subject into discussions on the legacy of slavery and
drawing attention to the particularity of black womenâs experiences.
Chapter 2 examines Octavia Butlerâs Kindred (1978), featuring a
contemporary black womanâs return to the antebellum past and her discovery of a
white slaveholding ancestor. The chapter introduces the term âdisplacementâ to
explore the transformative effects of shifting positionalities and destabilisation of
contemporary frames of reference. The chapter suggests that the novel challenges
idealised portrayals of a slave community and expresses scepticism regarding its own
premise of fictionally reimagining slavery. With its inconclusive ending, Kindred
ultimately illustrates how whiteness and dominant versions of history prevail in the
seemingly progressive present.
Chapter 3 discusses Gayl Jonesâ Corregidora (1975) and its subversion of
the matrilineal model of tradition by reading the maternal ancestorâs narrative as
oppressive, limiting and psychologically burdening. The chapter introduces the term
âancestral subtextâ in order to identify the ways in which ancestral narratives of
enslavement serve as subtexts to the descendantsâ lives and constrict their
subjectivities. The chapter argues that the ancestral subtexts frame contemporary
practices, inform the notion of selfhood and attest to the reproduction of past
violence in the present.
Chapter 4 deals with Toni Morrisonâs Beloved (1987) and Phyllis Alesia
Perryâs Stigmata (1998) exploring complex ancestral figures as survivors of the
Middle Passage and their connection to Africa as an affective site of identity
reclamation. The chapter identifies the role the quilt, the skill of quilting and their
metaphorical potential as symbolic means of communicating ancestral trauma and
conveying multivoiced âancestral articulationsâ. The chapter suggests that the project
of healing and recovering the self in relation to ancestral enslavement are premised
on re-connecting with African cultural contexts and an intergenerational exchange of
the culturally specific skill of quilting
International education, educational rights and pedagogy:Introduction
With increased globalization, travel and mobility, international student education has become an academically and economically important part of tertiary education around the world. The increased commodification and marketization of higher education complicate the present challenges in ensuring culturally sensitive and competent pedagogies and enabling international studentsâ educational rights and equal access to opportunities and knowledge. Linking the multifaceted concept of educational rights to international student education and pedagogy, we explore issues related to cultural diversity, safety, vulnerability, welfare, peaceful co-existence in a changing global environment. Opening up further discussions on inclusive, culturally competent and accountable teaching in an unstable and frequently vexed geopolitical space, this introduction argues for an inclusive education that puts learning and social justice at its centre