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Responding to Reggio Emilia: Researching with Materials to Cultivate an Ecology of Practice in Early Childhood Education
No full textThis article traces an artist/pedagogue’s work with materials, children, and educators in response to a Reggio Emilia study tour experience and how this work was understood, positioned, and activated at a children’s service in Australia. Through situated, collaborative, everyday materials practices, a group of educators generated collective responses to colonized, land-based, neoliberal conditions. Artist/pedagogue, educator, and material stories describe how inspiration and ideas were mobilized and reshaped into a context-specific ecology of practice with materials
Recognizing Intergenerational Assets Within Religious Communities of Colour
No full textReligious organizations within communities of colour have traditionally been ignored by educational institutions, even though they provide community cultural wealth and literacy assets. While churches are often considered as having nothing to do with school, intergenerational experiences fostered by religious networks positively influence academic achievement and should be considered. In an effort to confront the minority deficit myth and promote a responsive pedagogy, this literature-based position paper promotes the acknowledgment of religion’s role in the cultural makeup of many children of colour, and the recognition of the intergenerational assets within marginalized religious social networks
Tyrico Bay
No full text“Tyrico Bay”, exhibits the power of Mother Nature and the clashing of two entities - water and earth - as they boldly come into each other’s way.
The Viewing
No full textThis narrative sequence engages with the theme as the \u27power\u27 is transferred from voyeur to viewed. The voyeur (i.e. the camera), maintains power as long as the people inside don\u27t notice. As soon as they do, with a simple gesture of closing the curtain, they have reclaimed the power in the relationship, restricting the outsider to remain on the outside
Aztlán: From Mythos to Logos in the American Southwest
No full textThis article advances the idea of “Aztlán” as a hybrid border identity that developed over time from ancient myth into a complex mode of social and political ontology. The cultural symbol of Aztec mythology was once the homeland of the Aztec people and eventually served a role in Aztec philosophy, functioning as truth for peoples throughout time, as seen in both Latin American and American philosophy and literature. It also helped the mixed-race Chicano/a population resist complete Americanization into the contemporary period, through the reclamation of original myth into a geopolitical homeland. The theory of “double hybridization,” similar to “double colonization,” must be further assessed and taken into consideration as the natural progression and understanding of Aztlán and border identity
Borders and the Feasibility of Rebel Conflict
No full textContemporary spatial research on civil conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa has largely focused on border regions as spaces of limited political and economic opportunity. These studies largely adopt approaches that present borderlands as institutionally desolate regions lacking in governance, economic opportunity and political inclusion and giving rise to the feasibility of rebel conflict. While spatial analyses focus on territorially-based capabilities, such as state power projection, they typically overlook borderlands and their territorial distinctiveness with regards to rebel capabilities. This paper specifically explores the structural effects of borders on rebel capabilities and argues that Sub-Saharan Africa’s porous borders enhance the capabilities of rebels to operate in nearby territories. I empirically test this hypothesis with a zero-inflated negative binomial model and spatially disaggregated conflict events data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project dataset mapped to the PRIO-GRID 0.5-degree x 0.5-degree geographic data structure. In total, the analysis covers 14,120 georeferenced rebel conflict events in 37 countries between 1997-2019. The results provide strong evidence that territories nearer to borders are likely to experience more battle events relative to other territories, suggesting that borderlands may enable distinct conflict-related capabilities for rebels not found elsewhere. Additionally, the model also differentiates the effects that the border may have on conflict, testing the effect of rough terrain, resources, excluded groups, and towns at the border. Of the variables tested, the results suggest that territories with border towns significantly increase the capabilities of rebels to engage in conflict and suggest a more nuanced scholarly consideration of cross-border institutions that facilitate rebel conflict
Restoration of a Mountain Bike Trail, Three Blind Mice Trail Network, Penticton, British Columbia
No full textMountain biking is a growning recreational activity in many areas of British Columbia which can have negative environmental effects on the landbase. The purpose of this project was to restore a segment of decommissioned mountain bike trail in the Three Blind Mice Trail network in Penticton, BC. The goals of the restoration treatment were to discourage riding on that trail segment, reduce soil erosion potential and establish vegetation cover. The trail segment to be restored was 41 m long with an average slope of 9% on loamy sand soil. The restoartion treatment included blocking the trail access, decompacting the trail tread surface and planting native vegetation. The restoration was successful in discouraging trail use and decompacting the surface to promote infiltration and reduce soil erosion potential. Vegetation establishment was partially successful with over-winter mortality of some of the transplanted species, specifically grass and herbs. Introduced agronomic species colonized the restored trail tread which has benefits related to soil stability but make it difficult for native species to colonize the treated area