#Culture – Digital Journal

Said (1994). Chapter 1 – Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories. (Culture and Imperialism.)

August 18, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

“The wonder of it is that the schooling for such relatively provincial thought and action is still prevalent, unchecked, uncritically accepted, recurringly replicated in the education of generation after generation. We are all taught to venerate our nations and admire our traditions: we are taught to pursue their interests with toughness and in disregard for other societies. A new and in my opinion appalling tribalism is fracturing societies, separating peoples, promoting greed, bloody conflict, and uninteresting assertions of minor ethnic or group particularity.” (p 20)

Roché. (2018). Switzerland’s mysterious fourth language.

August 4, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

“…but now people are tired of everything being the same everywhere. It’s seen as hip and cool to go back to your roots and be more local than global.” (¶15)

Chambers (2015). Language Nests as an Emergent Global Phenomenon.

June 26, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

“This literature review demonstrates that approaches to language nest program development and delivery are shaped by many factors such as: Indigenous language status within the community, population size, availability of fluent speakers and early childhood educators, state legislation and funding, and access to materials and resources in the target language.” (p 26)

Everett-Green (2015). How my neighbourhood looks and sounds in Ojibway.

June 25, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

“In another Spreecast, about learning indigenous languages, Coast Salish teacher Khelsilem Rivers, founder of the Skwomesh Language Academy in Squamish, B.C., said he isn’t interested in language apps, CD-ROMs or anything that involves working from English translations. Fluency is impossible with ‘that English brain controlling things.’ Full immersion is the only way, he said…” (¶21)

Wilkinson (1964). Translator’s Introduction. (The Technological Society.)

May 1, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

“The denizen of the technological state of the future will have everything his heart ever desired, except, of course, his freedom.” (p xvii)

Merton (1964). Foreword. (The Technological Society.)

May 1, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

“Ours is a progressively technical civilization: by this Ellul means that the ever-expanding and irreversible rule of technique is extended to all domains of life. It is a civilization committed to the quest for continually improved means to carelessly examined ends.” (p vi)

Morris (2016). An Example of Excellence: Chickasaw Language Revitalization through Technology.

March 27, 2018March 27, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

“Indeed, through this article, in the Western academic sense, we see technology, adaption and adoption, synthesis and innovation by the Chickasaw Nation. But those from Native communities, including this author, see self-determination in praxis. Language is a matter of cultural survival.” (p 302)