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Kathlene Lowe, Russell Lowe, Kevin Steiner, Alice Steiner
No full textBlack and white photograph of (left to right) Kathlene Lowe, Russell Lowe, Kevin Steiner, and Alice Steiner during a Utah Heritage Foundation event in the 1980s
Eastern Australian indigenous language centres - Collective action for community needs
No full textThe “Group”* is a confederation of Aboriginal language advocates from across Eastern Australia. They have elected to act as a 2-way conduit between government – both state and commonwealth and the many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and individuals who are currently working on the reclamation and maintenance of their languages. Currently the group is working in collaboration with national archival and acquisition institutions, national media organisations, labour organisations, state and commonwealth education and curriculum development agencies. In respect to its task of collaborating and representing the interests and needs of language centres, the group has facilitated state and national workshops with Aboriginal language centres. These have generated considerable discussion and agreement on a wide range of common concerns that focus on matters such as staffing, funding, training, relationships development and maintenance with government and community stakeholders and the promotion of Indigenous languages within an overwhelmingly monolingual environment.
This presentation will focus on a range of these concerns and outline the proactive role that the group has taken to address these issues with government, their agents, and communities themselves.
Author 1.
The ‘author’ a Gubbi Gubbi man from southeast Queensland, until recently was the Inspector, Aboriginal Education in the New South Wales Board of Studies. He has had extensive experience in schools, vocational education and universities before taking up his position at the Board in 2001. He was held positions in national, state and regional Indigenous organisations over many years. Over the last decade his work has focused on developing curriculum to teach both Aboriginal Studies and Aboriginal Languages. He has also worked with Aboriginal communities, schools and education systems across NSW to facilitate the development of quality educational projects that support effective school and community learning partnerships. He is currently a post-graduate doctoral student at Newcastle University.
Author 2.
The ‘Author’ is from the Yugambeh community south of Brisbane, in Queensland Australia. She has been involved for over twenty years with Indigenous language projects both at the community level and in consultation for state and national policy in support of languages. The ‘Author’ has for the past four years been the coordinator for two major language organisations providing representation for language centres over half of Australia. Through this work she played a key role in liaising with the Federal Government for the announcement of the 2009 National Indigenous Languages Policy.
She has had extensive experience in writing, editing and publishing, and is an author and publisher of a range of books designed to help teach languages to young children.
* The term “Group” is used in this document to replace the title of the organisation
Fostering revitalisation through the teaching and learning small languages in schools in NSW
No full textAboriginal languages in the state of New South Wales (NSW), like many others on the south-east coast of Australia, have born the brunt of invasion and colonisation, and rapidly lost full inter-generational transmission of language. Hence current revival efforts for many languages in NSW rely on a combination of the cultural and linguistic knowledge that has been held and remembered by Aboriginal communities, and the reconstruction and analysis of historical and archival documentation. According to the 2006 Australian Bureau of Statistics census, the Aboriginal population of NSW is 148,178 (2.2% of the state’s population). And, while NSW consists of approximately 10% of the total land area of Australia, there are 70 Aboriginal languages in the state. By such measures, these are small languages. However, this has not dampened community efforts to bring back and strengthen languages and to maintain linguistic diversity and identity. This presentation provides and overview of relationships between community language reclamation efforts and the NSW Aboriginal Languages K – 10 Syllabus (Board of Studies NSW 2003). School programs developed from the syllabus are taught by Aboriginal community members who are re-learning and re-connecting with their languages. The programs are supported by resources from government and non-government school systems and curriculum support agencies. The syllabus aims to support community aspirations for language revival, firstly for languages to be heard and spoken again. As such, school programs include opportunities for students to use language. The syllabus assumes a second-language learning environment and encourages communicative language teaching pedagogy. Secondly, reflecting community aspirations for school programs, the syllabus includes learning outcomes reflecting the interdependence of language and culture. Through the third broad objective of the syllabus, students develop skills in “Making Linguistic Connections” for the language they are studying and its relationship to other Aboriginal languages. Since the syllabus was released in 2003, the Board of Studies NSW has been working with particular schools, communities and languages to develop local programs and foster positive school-community partnerships. Implementation of the syllabus has had impacts beyond the school programs. It has strategically fostered small-scale, community-based projects and provided a focus for language revival activities in local communities. This presentation describes observations of a number of locations, illustrating how the school programs both support and are supported community efforts for the rebuilding and strengthening of their languages
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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