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Australia’s Parental Leave Pay Scheme: Temporal Disruption and ‘Genuine’ Attachment to Waged Work
Get PDFAustralia’s parental leave provisions were enacted to provide both leave and pay for new parents, with the intent of promoting economic gender parity and softening the financial burden of motherhood. This paper investigates the structure of Australia’s parental leave pay (PLP) scheme, particularly its work-test eligibility requirement, and considers the consequences of this requirement for women excluded from PLP benefits by virtue of their attachment to waged work being deemed disingenuous (ie, not ‘genuine’). The article theorises a retemporalisation of care that allows for the varieties and transformations of embodied time in the gendered body
Reflective Practice and Professional Development
Get PDFThe book aims to encourage readers to reflect on their professional teaching practice, drawing on a range of models and techniques. It discusses a range of approaches to reflective practice, contextualising these to the classroom and discussing ways in which the effectiveness of reflection can be enhanced. It goes on to discuss ways in which reflective practice can improve the achievements of staff and students.The book is approachable and engaging, containing a range of case studies and examples from practice in primary schools and Initial Teacher Education, together with a range of useful resources and tools
#LesbiansAreHot: On Oil, Imperialism and What it Means to Queer International Law
Get PDFPaper given at the symposium to celebrate the scholarship of Dianne Otto, SOAS, University of London, September 2016
“Please mom? Can you please download it at home?”: Video Games as a Symbol of Linguistic Survivance
Get PDFThis article examines how the Splatsin Tsm7aksaltn (Splatsin Teaching Centre) of the Splatsin First Nation have decided to create a video game in order to revitalize their Secwepemc language and culture. The authors are part of a research team that are examining how to best include the Splatsin language and culture in this game. As such, a community meeting was held where parents and their stsmamlt (children) played video games such as Kisima Inŋitchuŋa (Never Alone). The parents and stsmamlt (children) identified strongly with the narrative, culture, and language presented in the video game. In this article the authors discuss that through the medium of a video game the stories of the Iñupiaq people were retold in the context of the community meeting, and the community members displayed agency in the game world through playing, observing, and commenting on the game. As such, the authors examine how video games can be a tool for cultural and language revitalization and how a video game can stand as a symbol of linguistic survivance.
How do you say watermelon?
Get PDFThis paper discusses the relationships between contemporary indigenous games and those played historically on Turtle Island. With Sla’hal as an example, we look for ancestral philosophies informing old games that might be used today in development of new indigenous games of survivance and survivance games. Using indigenous pedagogies of Anishinaabe, Choctaw and Lushootseed speaking peoples, in addition to some of Vizenor’s theories, we modeled the content of this paper with playful formats to encourage readers to think about their own gaming practices. Beginning with story, we offer a bit of history, philosophy, visuals, a podcast transcript, and our system of Indigenous Game Tags to assist your creative understandings
"Basket Becomes Codex: A Poem by Trevino Brings Plenty in the Portland Art Museum"
Get PDFThis essay brings several contexts together to examine a poem by Trevino Brings Plenty, "Little, Cultural, Teapot Curio Exposes People": Native material rhetorics (stories about objects and what they mean when connected with their communities), Tribalography (how stories bring ideas to life), Brings Plenty’s latest book of poetry, museum collection history, the history of spruce root basketry, and the policies and programming of the Portland Art Museum. When the poem resonates in all of these contexts, it works as a powerful revision of how museum objects have been understood in the past, and presents a new story about the significance of even the most seemingly trivial objects.
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