scholarly journals A Dog of a Qcat: Collateral Effects of Mandated English Assessment in the Torres Strait

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beryl Exley
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Authentic Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tasks ◽  
Performance Based Assessment ◽  
Collateral Effects ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
Remote Indigenous Community ◽  
Assessment Initiative

AbstractThis paper critiques a 2008 Queensland Studies Authority (QSA) assessment initiative known as Queensland Comparable Assessment Tasks, or QCATs. The rhetoric is that these centrally devised assessment tasks will provide information about how well students can apply what they know, understand and can do in different contexts (QSA, 2009). The QCATs are described as “authentic, performance based assessment” that involves a “meaningful problem”, “emphasises critical thinking and reasoning” and “provides students with every opportunity to do their best work” (QSA, 2009). From my viewpoint as a teacher, I detail my professional concerns with implementing the 2008 middle primary English QCAT in one case study Torres Strait Islander community. Specifically I ask “QCATs: Comparable with what?” and “QCATs: Whose authentic assessment?” I predict the possible collateral effects of implementing this English assessment in this remote Indigenous community, concluding, rather than being an example of quality assessment, colloquially speaking, it is nothing more than a “dog”.

Keyword analysis and the indexing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-399
Author(s):  
Monika Bednarek
Keyword(s):  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Television Drama ◽  
Keyword Analysis ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Corpus Linguistic ◽  
Reference Corpus ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
Social Demographics ◽  
Industry Professionals

Abstract This article presents a corpus-driven sociolinguistic study of Redfern Now – the first major television drama series commissioned, written, acted, directed and produced by Indigenous industry professionals in Australia. The study examines whether corpus linguistic keyword analysis can identify evidence for type indexicality (social demographics, personae) and trait indexicality (stance, personality), with particular attention paid to the potential indexing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity. More specifically, the study’s goal is to retrieve and analyse words that are associated with varieties of English in Australia, and with Australian Aboriginal Englishes in particular. To this end, a corpus with dialogue from Redfern Now is compared to a reference corpus of US television dialogue. Results show that Redfern Now features the use of easily recognisable and familiar words (e.g. blackfella[s], deadly; kinship terms), but also shows clear variation among characters. The case study concludes by evaluating the use of keyword analysis for identifying indexicality in telecinematic discourse.

A network approach to policy framing: A case study of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan

2017 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 10-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Browne ◽  
Evelyne de Leeuw ◽  
Deborah Gleeson ◽  
Karen Adams ◽  
Petah Atkinson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Plan ◽  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Network Approach ◽  
Policy Framing ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
Torres Strait Islander Health

Is There a Case for Mandatory Reporting of Racism in Schools?

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Auld
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Emotional Stress ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Mandatory Reporting ◽  
Professional Standards ◽  
Learning Success ◽  
Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Torres Strait

This paper explores how the colonial hegemony of racism in Australia could be disrupted in schools by introducing mandatory reporting of racism by teachers in Australia, and addresses the benefits and risks of mandatory reporting of racism. Using Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as a case study, the ongoing prevalence of racism in schools is established. I then draw on the literature associated with teachers’ mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect to construct racism as a form of emotional abuse of children. The complexity of racism as evidenced from the literature limits the mandatory reporting to interactional racism by teachers as an antiracist practice. The justification for mandatory reporting covers the emotional stress caused by racism to students and can also be extended to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff in schools. The evidence of learning success where antiracism strategies have been introduced in schools, the opportunity to normalise bystander antiracism by teachers, and the alignment of this reporting initiative with the professional standards of teachers together support a case for mandatory reporting of racism in schools. The arguments against mandatory reporting of racism draw on the generative practices of teachers integrating antiracist discourses in schools.

Strengthening Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy: lessons from a case study of food and nutrition

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (15) ◽  
pp. 2868-2878
Author(s):  
Jennifer Browne ◽  
Deborah Gleeson ◽  
Karen Adams ◽  
Deanne Minniecon ◽  
Rick Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
Nutrition Policy ◽  
Policy Problem ◽  
Political Opportunities ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
Torres Strait Islander Health

AbstractObjective:To examine key factors influencing the prioritisation of food and nutrition in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy during 1996–2015.Design:A qualitative policy analysis case study was undertaken, combining document analysis with thematic analysis of key informant interviews.Setting:Australia.Participants:Key actors involved in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy between 1996 and 2015 (n 38).Results:Prioritisation of food and nutrition in policy reduced over time. Several factors which may have impeded the prioritisation of nutrition were identified. These included lack of cohesion among the community of nutritionists, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders and civil society actors advocating for nutrition; the absence of an institutional home for nutrition policy; and lack of consensus and a compelling policy narrative about how priority nutrition issues should be addressed. Political factors including ideology, dismantling of public health nutrition governance structures and missing the opportunities presented by ‘policy windows’ were also viewed as barriers to nutrition policy change. Finally, the complexity and multifaceted nature of nutrition as a policy problem and perceived lack of evidence-based solutions may also have constrained its prioritisation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy.Conclusions:Future advocacy should focus on embedding nutrition within holistic approaches to health and building a collective voice through advocacy coalitions with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership. Strategic communication and seizing political opportunities may be as important as evidence for raising the priority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health issues.

scholarly journals From Researched to Centrestage: A Case Study

2008 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer K. Newsome
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Effective Response ◽  
Torres Strait

Applied research is a key way for music researchers to respond to the research agenda of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia. Developments at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music (CASM) point to applied research as an effective response to the call for self-determination and self-representation by Indigenous peoples in research. 

Conceptualizing the Association Between Community Participation and CQI in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander PHC Services

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (13) ◽  
pp. 1904-1915 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nalita Nungarrayi Turner ◽  
Judy Taylor ◽  
Sarah Larkins ◽  
Karen Carlisle ◽  
Sandra Thompson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
System Level ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Continuous Quality ◽  
Cultural Foundations ◽  
Indigenous Perspectives ◽  
Torres Strait

Drawing from Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, we conceptualize the association between community participation and continuous quality improvement (CQI) processes in Indigenous primary health care (PHC) services. Indigenous experiences of community participation were drawn from our study identifying contextual factors affecting CQI processes in high-improving PHC services. Using case study design, we collected quantitative and qualitative data at the micro-, meso-, and macro-health system level in 2014 and 2015 in six services in northern Australia. Analyzing qualitative data, we found community participation was an important contextual factor in five of the six services. Embedded in cultural foundations, cultural rules, and expectations, community participation involved interacting elements of trusting relationships in metaphorically safe spaces, and reciprocated learning about each other’s perspectives. Foregrounding Indigenous perspectives on community participation might assist more effective participatory processes in Indigenous PHC including in CQI processes.

Best practice principles for research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in action: Case study of a safe infant sleep strategy

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 460-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanine Young ◽  
Karen Watson ◽  
Leanne Craigie ◽  
Johanna Neville ◽  
Johanna Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Infant Sleep ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
Action Case

scholarly journals Applying Crime Prevention and Health Promotion Frameworks to the Problem of High Incarceration Rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Populations: Lessons from a Case Study from Victoria

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Samantha Battams ◽  
Toni Delany-Crowe ◽  
Matt Fisher ◽  
Lester Wright ◽  
Anthea Krieg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Torres Strait Islander People ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Prevention And Health Promotion ◽  
Torres Strait

This article examines what kinds of policy reforms are required to reduce incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through a case study of policy in the Australian state of Victoria. This state provides a good example of a jurisdiction with policies focused upon, and developed in partnership with, Aboriginal communities in Victoria, but which despite this has steadily increasing incarceration rates of Indigenous people. The case study consisted of a qualitative analysis of two key justice sector policies focused upon the Indigenous community in Victoria and interviews with key justice sector staff. Case study results are analysed in terms of primary, secondary, and tertiary crime prevention; the social determinants of Indigenous health; and recommended actions from the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. Finally, recommendations are made for future justice sector policies and approaches that may help to reduce the high levels of incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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