This chapter explores the urgent relevance of posthumanist theory and practice for democratizing creative educational experiences in 21st-century schools, universities, informal learning environments. Posthumanism challenges myopic centering human education an age climate change, artificial intelligence, zoonotic disease, where nonhuman agencies are intricately imbricated cultures lives. Using a cartographic methodology, critically maps key theories debates creativity studies across four...

Abstract A significant contention underpinning the commentary around STEM / STEAM is evidence of discipline hierarchies, and inherent binary perspectives and/or biases that lend themselves to privileging one or more disciplines over another in an interdisciplinary education context. The current focus on increasing engagement with Australian schools provides opportunities explore how creative liberal arts, arts‐based approaches teaching learning are being adopted significantly enhance...


 This article presents an overview of how interdisciplinary education agendas are being interpreted and enacted within three Australian states: New South Wales, Tasmania Victoria. A comparative discussion is offered to ascertain the common contrasting inhibitors enablers these agendas, specifically approaches STEM STEAM across states. Consideration given priorities espoused in current State Federal policy agendas. The explores disciplinary acronyms such as mobilised empower or exclude...

"Speech is not in people's hands. People are the hands of speech." —a Mande proverb Introduction Knowledge West African griot epic has advanced enormously last fifteen years with publication volumes by Thomas Hale, Scribe, Griot, Novelist: Narrative Interpreters Songhay Empire1 and Griots Griottes: Masters Words Music;2 Stephen Belcher, Epic Traditions Africa;3 Barbara G. Hoffman, At War: Conflict, Conciliation, Caste Mande.4 Despite richness these studies, concept nyama, word for occult...

The Tasmanian Midlands restoration work includes a multi‐faceted educational programme that connects schoolchildren, university students, researchers, artists and the community in Midlands. Here, we outline this consider its many benefits challenges through five years of continued support.

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated rapid progress and a high level of success in object detection. However, recent evidence has highlighted their vulnerability to adversarial attacks. These attacks are calculated image perturbations or patches that result misclassification detection suppression. Traditional camouflage methods impractical when applied disguise aircraft other large mobile assets from autonomous intelligence, surveillance reconnaissance technologies fifth...

During the 1996-1997 academic year, students at University of Ouagadougou went on strike for three months. This was worst in Burkina Faso's history (or former Upper Volta). The author, who a visiting American professor time strike, details what happened university and related incidents Bobo-Dioulasso. author suggests that may have resulted from erosion democratic rights within Burkinabe society, following assassination President Thomas Sankara rise to power current Blaise Compaord. Our...

From the appearance of Bound to Violence in late 1960s, Yambo Ouologuem has been one Africa's most controversial writers. This book gathers together essays on from critics three continents. Also included are recent interviews with reclusive author.

The role of interdisciplinarity in achieving authentic and transformative learning outcomes is both contested complex. At the same time, traditional disciplinary ways being, doing knowing have been further tested by impact COVID-19 on students, schools communities. In Tasmania, already experiencing amongst lowest levels educational attainment Australia, implications polarising. Preliminary reports employed interdisciplinary perspectives to understand how situation unfolding. Extremes...

Excavating The New Republic: Post-colonial Subjectivity in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart Christopher Wise (bio) “[I]t may be productive [today] to think terms of a genuine transformation being which takes place when the individual subject shifts from purely relations that very different dynamic is groups, collectives and communities . something can empirically experienced by participation group praxis—an experience no longer as rare it was before 1960s, but still enough convey ontological...

Research Article| January 01 2006 NYAMA AND HEKA: AFRICAN CONCEPTS OF THE WORD Christopher Wise Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2006) 43 (1-2): 19–38. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659503 Cite Icon Share Twitter Permissions Citation Wise; WORD. 1 2006; doi: Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Dropdown Menu input auto suggest filter your All Scholarly...

At TAFE NSW, we are currently working on comparing the efficiency and effectiveness of hand tracking (using Leap Motion) as an input device versus "traditional" handheld controller devices used with virtual reality headsets. The goal is to reduce learning curve when first on-boarding new users into virtual-reality usage measuring impact various techniques for veteran users. We in process developing a single training experience multiple scenarios, including 6-DOF (6 degrees freedom) control...

may be traced to Derrida's orientation Marxism as a uniquely African theorist of Sephardic, Maghrebian, and Judaic experience. Unless the reader Specters Marx is willing entertain this possibility, especially by suspending agendas race politics they are defined in (but also Judeo-African) diaspora US, France, elsewhere, edge critique latent metaphysics operative within Marxist theory will blunted, when not altogether misunderstood. In broader sense, deconstruction compatible with political...

Following Jacques Derrida's first sustained critique of Marx and Marxism in Specters Marx: The State the Debt, Work Mourning, New International (1994), an expanded version his lectures delivered at University California, Riverside, May 1993, numerous "Marxist" theorists have responded to provocative (and, for some, "untimely") intervention. Several these critical responses been gathered Michael Sprinker's volume Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on "Specters Marx" (1999), which includes...

This Special Issue of the journal Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education ( ADCHE ) revisits purpose and potential art design from an Australian perspective. It draws on November 2023 Council University Art Schools (ACUADS) 43rd conference, co-convened by Thao Nguyen, School RMIT myself. national forum sought to consider following: (1) how can creative education research embrace our unique perspective integrate First Nations knowledge cultivate a ‘thriving future’? (2) What is...