Ways of Learning: Indigenous Approaches to Knowledge: Valid Methodologies in Education

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Red Shirt Semchison
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Major Step ◽  
Native American Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

A friend, whom I had not seen for some time, recently asked me what I had been doing overthe last several months. I replied, ‘I have just spent the past year in the most incredible headspace.’ This elicited an excited curiosity from my friend to hear more and I began to explain. At fifty-six years of age I had made the decision to return to academic life as a student and pursue a degree in Australian Indigenous Studies. This had been suggested and encouraged by my Aboriginal sister, Jackie Huggins, and so, with herguidance I applied and was accepted to attend the University of Queensland within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (ATSIS) Unit of the Arts Faculty. It was a major step for me, for although I had been presenting lectures and workshops on aspects of traditional and contemporary Native American culture in the educational and public arenas for a decade, I had not been on the student side of the lectern for 40 years. In the first few weeks of semester one the impact of my decision was almost overwhelming. I had completed secondary school in Canada, being the first person in my family to achieve that and now here I was going to university, another first in my family.

An Introduction to the Impact Behaviour of Polymer Composites Using Simplified Beam Models

1998 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. W. Mines
Keyword(s):  
Composite Materials ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Progressive Collapse ◽  
Structural Response ◽  
Sandwich Beams ◽  
Three Point Bending ◽  
The Past ◽  
Structural Case ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The paper describes a final-year undergraduate course that has been taught at the University of Liverpool for the past three years. The main aims of the course are to introduce the student to the design of structures using multi-component (composite) materials and to the performance of such structures under impact loading. Given the complexity of generalized composite behaviour and of structural crashworthiness, a simple structural case is considered, namely, a beam subject to three-point bending. A feature of the course is that not only is linear structural response considered but also non-linear (progressive) structural collapse is covered. The course is split into four parts, namely: (i) analysis of composite laminae, (ii) analysis of laminated beams, (iii) local and global effects in sandwich beams, and (iv) post-failure and progressive collapse of sandwich beams. Static and impact loadings are considered. Comments are made on how the theories are simplified and communicated to the undergraduate students.

Radiocarbon Dates and New World Chronology

Antiquity ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 35 (140) ◽  
pp. 286-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Bushnell
Keyword(s):  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
New World ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

It is a commonplace of current archaeology that the publication of radiocarbon dates is revolutionizing our ideas of the past. Dr G. H. S. Bushnell, Curator of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in the University of Cambridge, England, has already published in ANTIQUITY and elsewhere some of his views on the impact of radiocarbon dating on New World chronology. Here he studies the whole problem in detail. He adopts the useful convention of referring to a date already fully published in the Radiocarbon Supplement to the American Journal of Science simply by its laboratory designation and number {thus K-554 is reading no. 554 of the Copenhagen Laboratory), but in some cases, where the date is not fully published, he gives fuller information.

scholarly journals Reclaiming Our Time: A 21st-Century Response to Banks’ “Afro-American Scholars in the University”

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-266
Author(s):  
Richard J. Reddick
Keyword(s):  
Urban Education ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
Predominantly White Institutions ◽  
Black Faculty ◽  
The Past ◽  
White Institutions ◽  
Urban Educators ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

William Banks’ 1984 article “Afro-American Scholars in the University” situated Black faculty at predominantly White institutions in a milieu noting the uses and misuses of Black scholars, constituencies in conflict, the range of responses from Black scholars, and the standards and realities for their advancement in academia. Banks further discussed the stigma of affirmative action and the burden of symbolism for Black faculty. This article, written in the #BlackLivesMatter and Trump era, engages with the same questions that Banks raised 34 years prior. This response expands the context to the field of urban education, and Black urban educators in the academy particularly, through an analysis of community engagement experiences, the burdens of cultural taxation, and the impact of affirmative action in a post-Fisher political context. Incorporating events both inside and outside of academia, the author considers the centrality of creating spaces of resistance and leveraging the gains for Black academics over the past three decades to alter the standards of the academy to support Black scholars and their allies.

Ecoscenography in action: Bridging stage design with Nature connection to shape sustainable communities and well-being

Scene ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-44
Author(s):  
Mona Kastell ◽  
Hannah Myers
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Design With Nature ◽  
Native American Culture ◽  
Nature Connection ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Social And Environmental Change ◽  
Air Pockets

Abstract In the midst of the climate crisis, both in terms of ecological and social issues, creatives must seek innovative ways to trigger and support active change. Interrogating our ways of working has become essential: How can we support the whole ecosystem? How can we deeply engage people? How can we be more accountable for our actions?Responding to these concerns, this paper reflects on the benefits of applying ecoscenography in 'Glimpsing Air Pockets' creative process. It results in an immersive, multi-sensory dance theatre production which aim is collective wellbeing through active engagement and Nature connection. Original to Native American culture and recently recognized by New Zealand and India governments, I refer in my writing to terms such as Nature or Earth with a capital letter, granting them their personhood status with equal rights to human beings.Written as a deep artistic reflection, this paper demonstrates the importance of linking the Arts and Nature connection to create positive social and environmental change for a more connected and resilient future of our society and the planet.

Cash and Customers: Theatre Revenue and the National Economy

1988 ◽  
Vol 4 (15) ◽  
pp. 258-263
Author(s):  
Paul Huntington
Keyword(s):  
Arts Administration ◽  
Commercial Sector ◽  
Consumer Expenditure ◽  
The West ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Arts ◽  
National Economic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

While statistical information on certain sectors of the British theatre is slowly becoming available – notably from the Arts Council and the Society of West End Theatre, as also from researchers in the Department of Arts Administration at the City University – few attempts have yet been made to draw useful conclusions from these figures, or to deduce how they might be helpful in terms of forward-planning and projections. In the following article. Paul Huntington examines the relationship between theatre revenue and total consumer expenditure, in the context of published figures which illustrate the changing national economic picture of the past decade. He examines not only the way in which these figures tend, naturally enough, to confirm certain expectations – for example, concerning the impact of tourism on the theatre – but also less expected findings, such as the relative upsurge in the fortunes of the regional theatres at a time of slump in the commercial sector of the West End.

scholarly journals The Impact Of Integration, Affirmative Action, And Diversity On Minority Student Recruitment At The University Of Alabama: A Longitudinal Perspective

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
John L. Festervand ◽  
Troy A. Festervand
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Minority Student ◽  
Minority Faculty ◽  
University Of Alabama ◽  
Minority Representation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Diversity In Higher Education ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This paper explores the University of Alabama's positions, actions, policies, and accomplishments over the past forty years with respect to minority representation among its students and faculty. The impact and progression of these initiatives by the University of Alabama demonstrates strides have been made. The paper also examines the University's recruiting efforts to attract more minority faculty and students. The transition from integration to affirmative action to diversity in higher education also are examined.

scholarly journals Keeping the World in Balance - Music Therapy in a Ritual Context

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Kenny
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Pacific Northwest Coast ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The People ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The University

I asked Walker why the Spirit Dances were held in the Winter. He told me that in the Winter the Earth's reserves are low, so the people must dance to create energy for the Earth during the Winter months. At the time I was a graduate student in anthropology at the University of British Columbia doing my field studies in the Salish Guardian Spirit Dance Ceremonials of the Pacific Northwest Coast (Kenny, 1982). Walker didn't seem to care as much about the academics as he cared about the fact that I was Native American myself. And he wanted to support my learning about healing and the arts. The Winter Dances, as the Salish people call them, are known for healing young adults in Pacific Northwest Coast Native societies who are not able to be cured by standard medical and psychological treatments (Kenny, 1982; Jilek, 1972).

scholarly journals Differentiation of Preferences Regarding the Places of Studying, Their Changes and Relationships with Mobility Decisions of the European Youth

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (3 (181)) ◽  
pp. 237-251
Author(s):  
Tomasz Padło
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Strong Positive Correlation ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Past ◽  
Economic Barriers ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Impact ◽  
European Youth

The article presents the results of the research on preferences regarding the places of study among young Europeans, the changes of the preferences and the relationships between the preferences and the decisions. The research was carried out among secondary school students in seven European cities in 2005–2007 and again in 2015–2018 (n=1577). The research showed a strong positive correlation between the preferences of the places of residence and the places of studying (r = 0.85). At the same time, stronger declared mobility among young inhabitants of Western Europe and the impact of economic barriers on decisions concerning studying among the youth from less developed European countries were proven. Minor changes in the preferences of the places of study over the past decade have been shown, along with the Cold War division of Europe, constantly influencing the imaginations.

Senior Design Projects to Aid the Disabled at the University of Toledo: Community Outreach and Impact

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Samir Hefzy ◽  
Gregory Nemunaitis ◽  
Nagi Naganathan ◽  
Christine Smallman
Keyword(s):  
Community Involvement ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Physically Disabled ◽  
The Past ◽  
Senior Design ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Senior Students

Abstract This paper describes the community involvement and the impact that the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (MIME) at the University of Toledo (UT) has accomplished during the past six years with its senior students in developing custom devices for physically disabled individuals within the Toledo community. These projects assist disabled individuals to better enjoy life and realize their maximum potential. These projects significantly enhance the education of student engineers through the experience of designing and building devices to meet a real need with feedback on how well the device satisfies that need.

Legal Certainty and Fundamental Rights

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Current Interest ◽  
High Current ◽  
Legal Certainty ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Legal Questions ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This book, containing legal research on the impact of legal certainty and fundamental rights on different branches of the law from a South African and German perspective, is the culmination of a collaboration between the University of Augsburg and the University of Johannesburg over the past decade. Topics of high current interest are introduced by South African scholars and responded to by their German counterparts, leading to a deeper understanding of open legal questions in both legal systems.

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