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| The AlterNative website has moved. | | AlterNative is pleased to announce the launch of its new website. Please visit www.alternative.ac.nz to read more about the journal, including call for papers, upcoming events, invitations for book reviews, and to sign up for the mailing list. Visiting the site also provides an opportunity to subscribe to the AlterNative journal and order back issues.
Note the AlterNative content within the maramatanga.co.nz/alternative site is no longer being updated please ensure you visit www.alternative.ac.nz for up-to-date content. | |
| | AlterNative Indigenous Podcast 1 - Linita Manu'atu: Critiquing Pasifica Education | | download the podcast here
In the inaugural episode of AlterNative Indigenous Podcasts we talk to Dr. Linita Manu'atu, Senior Lecturer in Pacific Studies at the Auckland University of Technology, about the issues facing peoples of the Pacific.
This podcast accompanies the release of the fifth edition.
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| | Fifth Issue Launch: Critiquing Pasifika Education. Friday 22 August | | AlterNative celebrates traditional knowledge through new technologies
Three years ago Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga began with a vision: to bring together more than 5,000 indigenous groups around the world into a dialogue that would support the growth of first nations in the academy. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Scholarship was founded. This Friday, at the Fale Pasifika, we celebrate the release of the fifth issue by returning our focus to the Pacific, profiling our rich heritage through the use of podcasting technology.
The fifth issue centres on the issue of what it means to be 'Pacific'. 'Critiquing Pacific Education' brings together a range of prominent Pacific scholars who debate the issues surrounding being grouped together under a geographic banner and the benefits of further incorporating indigenous world-views in contemporary education.
The launch also platforms the release of a series of podcasts that aim to increase the participation of indigenous peoples in shaping the direction of research into their communities by ensuring ground-breaking research is available in an easily accessible format. Released once a month, each podcast profiles the views and perspectives of a leading indigenous scholar or community member and is downloadable from the internet. The goal is to add to the depth and breadth of public archives of indigenous knowledge, engaging traditional knowledges in new ways to build for the future. This month's podcast features an interview with Linitā Manu'atu, a Senior Lecturer in Pacific Studies at the Auckland University of Technology.
This event is open to anyone with an interest in the intersection between indigenous research and technology.
Speakers:
Tui O'Sullivan, Auckland University of Technology
Sione Tuitahi, Massey University (Albany)
Dr. Chris Tooley, Managing Editor, AlterNative, Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga/ Department of Political Studies, University of Auckland
Phoebe Fletcher, Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga/ Department of Film, Television and Media Studies, University of Auckland
ALL WELCOME, LIGHT REFRESHMENTS SERVED
Date: Friday 22 August 2008
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Venue: Fale Pasifika, Wynyard Street, The University of Auckland
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| | Fourth Issue Out Now - Research Excellence | | Nga Pae o te Maramatanga celebrates the release of the fourth issue of their academic journal AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Scholarship today. This themed issue examines the concept of 'research excellence'. The notion of research excellence is of critical importance to the global advancement of indigenous peoples – it informs the direction and measurement of research outputs, the standards against which we measure our work in our communities and the way teaching is tailored in our institutions. In this issue, we ask indigenous scholars from around the world to interrogate the concept of research excellence – who defines it, how it is defined, and how does it serve the needs of indigenous communities?
Clive Aspin joins guest editors Marilyn Brewin, Mere Kēpa and Joanna Kidman to offer a selection of the finest scholarship examining research excellence from indigenous scholars around the globe. The result is a collection that ranges from Aotearoa to Botswana, from science to ethnomathematics, from the community to the academy demonstrating the depth and breadth of indigenous scholarship available today. In raising questions of importance to indigenous scholars, AlterNative provides a forum through which indigenous communities and scholars work to determine the future direction of their research.
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| | Call for papers | | AlterNative welcomes unsolicited articles from indigenous perspectives across all disciplines.
The next deadline for submission is August 31, 2008.
For further information, please see the Submit page. | |
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