Between Policy and Practice: Archival Descriptions,Digital Returns and a Place for Coalescing Narratives

ABSTRACT

The Strathfieldsaye Estate collection at the University of Melbourne Archives is discussed in relation to recognising, protecting and reclaiming Koori (First Peoples of southeast Australia) heritage. The settler collection includes early 1900s photographs of Koori people within two distinct albums – a family album that includes a series of studio portraits of Koori adults and children, and an album depicting Koori families on Ramahyuck Aboriginal Mission Station. In the past, these albums have been defined by, and limited to, traditional archiving practices excluding Koori interpretation, authorship and social context. Restoring Koori ownership and authorship of intangible heritage plays a large part in consolidating ancestor photographs with Koori perspectives of identity and culture.     

五十四年来明代土司研究取得的成绩

54年来,在＂中国文化热＂的驱动、刊物的支持、学者的努力和高校的培育下,明代土司政治文化研究取得了很大的成绩,形成8大研究板块和以土司为中心的地方史及民族史2个研究取向;但同时也还存在一些问题,应强化土司族别史研究,建立国家、社会分层体系、分类解读政治文化现象。     

发挥“四史”教育铸魂育人功能

“四史”教育蕴含着丰富的文化价值,对塑造学生正确的历史观,抵御历史虚无主义,激发爱国情怀有着积极的推动作用。开展“四史”教育,打造“五个一”工程,建立一支红色宣讲团、举办一场党史绘画展、开启一项红色轻骑兵走基层活动、塑造一种融入红色精神的专业志愿服务精神、打造一项传承红色基因的社会实践新品牌,为学生点亮信仰之光,照亮前行之路。     

We Are All Teachers: A Collaborative Approach to Digital Collection Development

ABSTRACT

In libraries and archives, efforts to document underrepresented communities and diversify collections can be fraught with political tension. We explore an interdepartmental collaboration to create and preserve a digital collection documenting the Urban Native Relocation Program of the mid- to late-twentieth century in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Involving the Grand Valley State University Libraries, the Kutsche Office of Local History, and the university's Native American Advisory Board, the project serves as a model not just for collaborative collection development but also for community engagement and outreach. We find that process is as important as product in developing collaborative digital collections.     

Using teacher stories to reveal quality educational practice: An Eastern Cape experience

The University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project set out to improve qualifications of primary teachers in rural and township schools in the Eastern Cape of the Republic of South Africa. At the culmination of an 11-year AUSAid collaboration between the University of Fort Hare and University of South Australia a research project to reveal quality educational practice was undertaken. Using oral histories as the methodology, teacher stories were gathered through a sequence of interviews and classroom observations. This collection of oral histories constitutes the basis for the paper. Its research focus has been the science and mathematics practices of eight teachers who typify the many hundreds who participated in the project. This paper explores the use of oral history as a methodology for documenting quality educational practice.     

Teacher resistance to engage with ‘alternative’ perspectives of difficult histories: the limits and prospects of affective disruption

This paper discusses teacher resistance to recognizing some perspectives of difficult histories. The paper focuses on the following question: How does affect contribute not only to the formation of teacher resistance, but also to its disruption in ways that enable the productive reclaiming of teachers’ engagement with traumatic histories? To address this question, the paper first revisits the notion of difficult knowledge, highlighting its affective dimensions and its relevance to teacher resistance. Then, it argues that the role of affect in resistance demands a different way of conceptualizing ‘teacher resistance’ to acknowledge how affect is entangled with both the micro- and macro-political dimensions of resistance. In the light of this reconceptualized notion of teacher resistance, the paper theorizes the notion of ‘affective disruption’ by using Judith Butler's social theory. Finally, the notion of ‘pedagogy of discomfort’ is revisited to demonstrate the new openings created by a reconceptualized notion of teacher resistance in the context of teacher professional learning.     

Cataloging Oral Histories: Creating MARC Records for Individual Oral History Interviews

Cataloging oral histories presents many difficulties, especially for catalogers who have primarily worked with published materials and for institutions without funds or staff dedicated to managing oral history collections. Methods for cataloging oral histories can vary widely among institutions. In this article I examine the issues and considerations involved in providing intellectual access to oral history interviews and offer a possible cataloging method to libraries holding unprocessed oral history materials. The cataloging procedures discussed here have worked well from a workflow standpoint as one of the initial steps to create access to oral histories at Columbus State University, a medium-sized academic library.     

基于“四史”教育的“中国近现代史纲要”教学研究

为落实"四史"教育要求,高校要充分依托现行教材,综合运用多学科知识,以中华民族伟大复兴为"纲",以党史、新中国史、改革开放史和社会主义发展史等"四史"为"要",开展"中国近现代史纲要"教学,明确课程要求,挖掘教育资源,贯通教学过程,使大学生经由"纲要"之门,步入"四史"殿堂,厚植史学底蕴,引导大学生明理、增信、崇德、力行。     

“四史”教育融入高校思想政治工作的时代意蕴与实践指向

“四史”教育融入高校思想政治工作,具有推进高校立德树人根本任务落地落实,理想信念教育有的放矢,思想政治工作更具实效的价值意蕴。从将“四史”教育作为理想信念教育的重要内容,培养“大历史观”的有效途径,激发爱国力行的有益助推的逻辑建构出发,厘清“四史”教育融入高校思想政治工作的现实困境。高校应该结合大学生的主体特征和需求,“四史”与思政教学的内在逻辑,高校思想政治工作的目标要求,将“四史”教育融入理论武装体系、学科教学体系并构建“四史”教育制度保障体系。     

Wilful Ignorance and the Emotional Regime of Schools

This article explores how ignorance of vulnerability – particularly of others’ vulnerability – may be produced and maintained in schools, especially in the context of pedagogical engagement with difficult histories. A focus on ignorance forces educators to ask not only about the epistemological presence of ‘difficult knowledge’ in schools, but also how epistemological absences operate affectively, formulating particular ‘emotional regimes’ of ignorance. The article shows how the denial of others’ vulnerability – in the name of race/racism, nation-state/nationalism and the like – invokes and moulds particular emotional regimes that reproduce the ignorance of vulnerability underlying difficult histories. It is argued that only with a systematic analysis of the production and reproduction of emotional regimes of ignorance can educators conceive of vulnerability as being a pedagogical resource for ethical response and political resistance to regimes of ignorance in schools. The article discusses the implications for critical education.