My latest paper based on research in an Australian international school in the Middle East . Discusses influence of perceptions of 'relevance' of content on curriculum decisions, with a particular focus on 'Australian' content and students' cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
Dr Lee said that her grandmother said “when colonisation came them fellas (LGBT) lost their identity”. The data reflects such a gap says Dr Lee #ANIRC2019@AIATSIS@CentrePoche
1/2 The US nearly obliterated Cambodia in an illegal bombing campaign in the 1960s and 1970s, killing an estimated 600,000 people and paving the way for Khmer Rouge to come to power and inflict even more genocidal violence. This is morally obscene. It defies history and decency.
Since the #Brexit vote, racist attacks on migrant sex workers have gone up, particularly against those of us who work on the street. We work for a living like other workers and our families and sometimes whole communities depend on the money we earn. https://t.co/vUpeLLbgeP
Also, just a fun reminder for teachers in school or uni - Creative Spirits is not an Indigenous owned site and much of the content is problematic af.
Stop including it in resource lists and don’t accept it as a reference in assignments.
Got my opening tonight at the Tauranga Art Gallery - it’s my first solo show in a public gallery. Pretty nervous but mostly grateful for the opportunity!
This panel was so powerful-unsettling- with deep theory connected to real lives (and deaths).Thank you Prof. Bunda, Dr Lowe, A. Prof. Stewart, Dr Lopez, & Dr Gilbey for the most electrifying panel session.A strong panel to end-could've been a brilliant way to begin #IAACS2018
Soudien concludes: While we are in a civilisation moment of narcissism, we are also at a moment of incredible visceral distress. The resources we have around trauma, reconciliation and more are not up to the job.
Transformation through Inclusion-
A 'rational' response - draw from the whole corpus of knowledges to a point of commensurability. Don't continue Western traditional of drawing piecemeal from vast bodies of knowledge and ignoring that which doesn't fit.