Ngōku whakaaro – hei maumaharatanga. Maori women facial adornment: A mark of remembrance

To honour the life and memory of the late Te Arikinui Te Atairangikaahu, and the elevation of her son King Tuheitia, a group of women from Tainui iwi under took the process of taking moko kauae - of colouring their chins with traditional patterns. The adornment process took place at Turangawaewae marae with family, friends, elders, and grandchildren. In this presentation we will talk about the journey of these women to prepare themselves for their transformations, the process they went through, and their lives since. We will also consider how their decision also meant exposure to outside opinion, the associated risks of objectification, “image-snatching”, and cultural and intellectual property issues

Using an Open Software System (Sakai) to Develop Student Portfolios

E-portfolios are digital collections of artifacts that represent the achievements and reflections of individuals. They offer a unique view into student learning and allow educators and external accreditors to assess student progress towards established standards as well as reviewing their program’s performance in supporting that progress. Students benefit from assembling their e-portfolios through the process of reviewing their own work with a critical eye, choosing pieces of their work that best represent their abilities, and reflecting on the transformative nature of their University experience, both in class and through extra-curricular, service learning, internships and international activities. An e-portfolio provides a holistic view of a student’s personal growth and abilities that will serve them well in their career search or graduate school application. The challenge for an institution is to provide this learning and assessment resource in an accessible and affordable vehicle that is manageable for both faculty and students. Roger Williams University has crafted a strategy to utilize the Sakai open source course management system with its integrated e-portfolio tool set and a linked website to provide both e-portfolios and program assessment. This strategy will also be employed to propose a virtual accreditation of a professional program that will serve as a model throughout the University and the broader higher education community

Language tutors at the OUUK – their (e)-competencies in Open and Distance Learning

The OUUK has been teaching distance courses in languages for more than ten years. Students learn by means of specially-designed course materials, increasingly web-based resources and through direct interaction with tutors, who provide personalised feedback on the students’ assignments as well as offering tutorials for communicative practice. The role of OUUK tutors embraces, however, more than just teaching and giving feedback. They play a central role in supporting students in every aspect of their learning, forming the interface between the institution and the learner. The importance of the tutor role in ODL in general has been the subject of some informative research, but much less has been written about the skills needed by tutors of languages at a distance. This international research project has been set up to address this shortfall, and to gather evidence and insights into this particular role. The project aims to investigate the skills, attributes and (e-)competencies required by language tutors of whom a substantial number deliver the tuition online. Initially, a selected group of OUUK language tutors generated what they perceived to be the knowledge, skills and attributes necessary to carry out this complex and demanding role which included the requisite skills for online tuition delivery. In the next stage the outcomes they had produced were refined and regrouped by the researchers. In the third stage a wider sample of tutors commented and added to the listings. This paper will report on the findings so far and summarise the next stages which are planned

Investigating the Potential of Augmented Reality in Creating a Sense of Place on College Campuses

This project examines how designing an augmented reality (AR) campus navigation app can improve college students\u27 sense of place and connection with California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB). To guide the design of the app, I engaged in qualitative research using a curated campus walk protocol that invited students to walk to their favorite place on campus and record their walk while narrating it. My analysis reveals the larger patterns that students use to select favorite places and favorite routes to those places, as well as how space navigation may lead to the formation of a sense of connection with the campus through enabling community, evoking memory, providing opportunities for people- and nature-watching, and developing a sense of place ownership. Using the affordances of AR technology, this app will provide students with a broader view of places to explore on campus for navigation and to enhance each student\u27s sense of community and belonging. The recommended features of the app would provide tools for building, place, and route discovery, as well as dynamic ways of discovering proximate places based on a student’s location. This project highlights the potential of AR to enhance students\u27 academic journeys and institutional ties, which is in line with CSUSB\u27s mission of establishing a transformative educational experience for all students

Basque Bertsolaritza

Prior to 1879, only 102 books were produced in Euskara and only four of those were literary (Lasagabaster 1990:2), as opposed to treatises on the language, sermons, and so forth, so in essence written Basque literature is a twentieth-century phenomenon. The forms of oral literature were abundant prior to the emergence of the written forms, and the art of the bertsolari ("Basque troubadour") formed the basis for much of the early written poetry. Bertso paperak ("paper verses") were printed with the name of the melody to which they should be sung, for example.Not

Orality and Basque nationalism : Dancing with the devil or waltzing into the future?

The Basque Country in northern Spain is comprised of two autonomous communities, also known by the names Euskadi and Navarra, as their respective polities refer to themselves. There are three traditional provinces within Euskadi: Araba, Gipuzkoa, and Bizkaia. There are also three Basque provinces in France, but this discussion will be limited to the Basque Country in Spain.Not

Federalism, Uniformity, and the State Constitution—State v. Gunwall, 106 Wn. 2d 54, 721 P.2d 808 (1986)

In State v. Gunwall the Washington Supreme Court announced six criteria that Washington courts are to employ in determining whether a constitutional claim should be decided on state rather than federal grounds. This method of state constitutional analysis implicitly rejects the idea that the state constitution applies to every case in which it is raised. Instead, the method assumes that the federal Constitution controls claims that individual rights have been violated, unless application of the state constitution can be justified through use of the court\u27s criteria. These criteria confine the development of independent state constitutional doctrines to provisions of the state constitution that are textually distinct from the federal Constitution, or to cases that present other defined reasons for departing from federal doctrine. The Gunwall court\u27s method of state constitutional analysis undermines the role of Washington\u27s constitution as a fundamental element of the state\u27s law. This Note proposes a method for state constitutional analysis that is not focused on maintaining consistency with the content of federal doctrine. A principled, independent body of state constitutional law will not be readily achieved unless state courts focus directly on the text and structure of the state constitution in its entirety, without employing limitations that are keyed to federal constitutional doctrine

Do Women Need a National Government? Portents and Prospects for Social Policy in a Decentralized Federation

This article presents a critique of recent policy discussions about the decentralisation of social programs in Canada, arguing that such discussions neglect the impact of decentralisation on poor women and children in particular. The paper goes on to advocate a form of social corporatism or "social partners"--with women as a key constituency to set standards for federal and provincial programs.Cet article présente une critique des discussions sur les politiques récentes en faveur de la décentralisation des programmes sociaux au Canada, qui soutiennent que ce genre de discussions négligent l’impact que la décentralisation a sur les femmes et sur les enfants pauvres en particulier. Cet exposé se poursuit en recommandant une forme de corporatisme social ou "partenaires sociaux" — avec les femmes comme composantes importantes pour établir des normes des programmes fédéraux et provinciaux