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“Okay Okay Okay, Now the Video Is On”: An Analysis of Young Children’s Orientations to the Video Camera in Recordings of Family Interactions
No full textThis paper explores 3- to 6-year-old children’s orientations to the video camera in video recordings of everyday family interactions. Children’s orientations to the video camera in these recordings were identified and analyzed using the constant comparative method. Types of orientations to the video camera included talking about the camera, engaging in camera-directed talk and/or action, and interacting with the camera. In some cases, these orientations occurred after a parent or sibling first oriented to the video camera; however, in other cases no prior orientation was evident. Theoretical and practical implications of the results are discussed
Colonialism in Early Education, Care, and Intervention: A Knowledge Synthesis
No full textThis knowledge synthesis aims to understand Indigenous experiences of early childhood education, care, family support, intervention, health, and Indigenous services in the context of childhood disability. Each of these institutional contexts has its own underlying professional discourses and worldviews. Knowledge from three sources have been synthesized: (1) interviews with Indigenous families about their experiences of having disabled children, conducted through the Inclusive Early Childhood Service System (IECSS) Project; (2) analysis of the IECSS interviews by the Districtof Temiskaming Elders Council and Indigenous community partners; and (3) the existing body of literature on disability and Indigenous children.This project was conducted in partnership with a mixed team of Indigenous and settler researchers
Reconciliation as Relationship: Exploring Indigenous Cultures and Perspectives Through Stories
No full textResponding to the calls to action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, a non-Indigenous author and her coeducator embarked on a learning and research journey with 4-year-old children in a preschool program. The challenge for the educators was to make the experience meaningful to the children rather than handing down a set of information on Indigenous cultures and history. Through exploring Indigenous stories, both the educators and the children shared their wonderings and coconstructed the meanings of them. Developing authentic appreciation toward Indigenous cultures and values through the power of stories became a first step toward reconciliation
From the Guest Editor - Reconceptualizing Children, Teaching, and Learning Through Inter/Intragenerational Educational Opportunities
No full textWritings on the Wall: Textual Traces of Transit in the Aegean Borderscape
No full textThe Greek island of Lesvos has a centuries-old history as a site of departure, arrival, coexistence and resistance for the forcibly displaced. This migratory chronology, however, was overwritten by the unprecedented attention that Lesvos attracted during the 2015 ‘refugee crisis’. This paper examines vernacular aspects of bordering, specifically the practice of border crossers and other groups standing in solidarity with—or against—them, to inscribe messages on walls in and around carceral and public spaces, viewed as a process of constructing and contesting borders from below. Closely reading numerous inscriptions collected around Lesvos reveals how borders are constructed, enacted and contested from below through borderlanders’ discursive practices on some of the very walls that constitute the EU frontier’s material infrastructure. This study aims to advance understandings of the historical continuity of the Aegean borderscape as a complex landscape of border effects and affects that exceed borders’ legal, infrastructural and political dimensions, while also highlighting the persistence and importance of personal agency, self-authorship and identity reclamation by border populations even in the direst of circumstances
Understanding Aterritorial Borders through a BIG Reading of Agnew’s Globalization and Sovereignty
No full textThis essay advances the emerging idea of ‘aterritorial borders’ through an argument by analogy with a recent publication by a leading political theorist
An evaluation of invasive species including Scotch Broom (Cytisus scoparius) in the Trincomali Nature Sanctuary to form future management and monitoring strategies
No full textThe Trincomali Nature Sanctuary (TNS) is a plot of land on Galiano Island owned by the Islands Trust Conservancy and is presently managed by Habitat Acquisition Trust. The TNS is a very significant piece of land because it is made up of many important ecosystems including over 400 meters of intact coastal bluff, a rare and distinctive ecosystem. The bluffs at TNS provide critical habitat for several species at risk and are considered one of the largest nesting colonies of Double-crested and Pelagic Cormorants, both of which are provincially listed species. Due to previous logging and disturbance the TNS is infested with many invasive species. However, the southern half of the sanctuary is less degraded with cedar and older growth forest still intact, whereas the northern half of the sanctuary shows more signs of disturbance from recent logging. Since taking over management of the sanctuary HAT has conducted yearly invasive plant removals as well as conducted two native species plantings. This project focused on mapping out five invasive plants (Scotch Broom, Canada/Creeping Thistle, Cutleaf Evergreen Blackberry, Foxglove and Rose Campion) within the TNS and then conducting an invasive species pull.Line transects were conducted in the TNS with a Garmin GPS, first in the northern half of the sanctuary during July and August as not to disturb the nesting avian species. Then, in October after the nesting season had ended the southern section of the sanctuary was surveyed. Photo-monitoring was done for each area marked on the GPS to assist in future monitoring by HAT. From that, an ArcGIS was created depicting the abundance, location and density of invasive species throughout the TNS. The northern section of the TNS had more locations with invasive species due to it being more recently logged and disturbed. An invasive species pull was conducted in October along the coastal bluffs. This area had the most extensive amount of Scotch Broom and was a priority area for removal due to its ecological significance.Future monitoring and management should include yearly visits to the TNS where monitoring of species (through photo monitoring) and invasive species pulls are conducted. If funds are available more native species plantings should be conducted where large areas of invasive plants are removed to promote regrowth of native species. With Scotch Broom being the most prevalent invasive species in the sanctuary long-term monitoring and management should be conducted for at least the next twenty years as it’s seed bank can survive in the soil for around twenty years
Mobile Youth and Belonging in the Gulf: A Study of Dubai
No full textThe rapid economic growth in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region has enticed flocks of expatriates from all over the world to the region in hopes of attaining a better quality of life. These expats often migrate with their spouses and children in tow bringing to light a new challenge for the Arab world: mobile youth. This research aims to find if the journey ‘home’ (repatriation) plays a role in developing these mobile children’s sense of belonging to a ‘home’, and if so, to which ‘home’. In order to do this, the research will conduct a theoretical analysis of these mobile youth born or raised within the Gulf by analysing one-on-one structured interviews through the lens of the theory of belonging, and the study of language and culture. This research concludes that in fact, mobile youth build their sense of belonging in relation to multiple ‘homes’ and not just to their ‘adopted’ or ‘parental’ home
