Claudio da Silva

@ciie.fpce.up.pt

Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences (FPCEUP)
Centre for Research and Intervention in Education (CIIE)

Claudio da Silva


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RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Education, Cultural Studies, Conservation
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Scopus Publications

278

Scholar Citations

4

Scholar h-index

3

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

  • The integration of indigenous knowledge in school: a systematic review
    Cláudio da Silva, Fátima Pereira, José Pedro Amorim
    Compare, 2024
  • Indigenous knowledge and Language Revival in Post-colonial Education in Papua New Guinea
    Cláudio da Silva, Craig Alan Volker, and
    Journal on Asian Linguistic Anthropology, 2021
    Although Papua New Guinea (PNG) has more languages than any other country in the world, the education system in PNG inherited at Independence from Australia in 1975 is modelled on the Australian system and is therefore monolingual and centralised. Children in PNG are currently educated in English, a language they rarely encounter outside of school, with curriculum and textbooks produced by persons not from the students’ own cultural background, often overseas or by resident foreigners. An ineffectively organised attempt by the national government to introduce limited early education in local languages and the perception that educational standards have dropped since Independence in 1975 limit public support for education in Papua New Guinean languages (Volker 2015a). This paper describes a two-month inter-disciplinary workshop in the Nalik-speaking community in the New Ireland Province (NIP) of PNG. Nalik, one of 23 languages in New Ireland Province, is spoken by approximately 4000 people in 15 villages on the east and west coasts of the northern part of New Ireland, 70-90 kilometres from the provincial capital, Kavieng (Volker 2015b, 210). The purpose of the project was to test ways of introducing customary knowledge and language into grade six and seven classwork (Silva 2017). The workshop focused on the representations that birds have in Nalik culture, as birds are present in many stories and represent clan totems in Nalik culture. Thus, they play a central role in Nalik culture, helping people to understand philosophical principles at the core of Nalik society and to identify particularly significant words and expressions in the Nalik culture. The children in the workshop were given the research task of interviewing elders about local bird names, traditional laws about birds, and stories or narratives related to birds. The students researched significant Nalik biological or philosophical terms, described these in English, and linked these to their knowledge in the social and natural sciences. Because they were aware that their findings would be collectively published as a book, students exercised caution and precision in their use of both Nalik and English terminology. Following the production of the book, and by using an action-research method, Nalik community members assisted in the content of the book, and in this way limited errors outside researchers might have introduced when writing about their culture. The project received strong support from parents and community leaders, with one chief attending almost all sessions in order to eventually lead similar workshops. Rather than as an attempt at a complete language revival (e.g., as in much more comprehensive projects set out by Fishman 2001), this project must be seen as a first, but important, attempt to assist students to increase their awareness of Nalik language, and to improve their desire to be competent in both the language of education (English) and their ancestral language (Nalik). The classes with the students therefore go beyond formulaic language learning, but do not comprise a complete immersion or neighbourhood language program. Parents reported an increase in students’ care in writing in English (as seen in the high number of students doing well in the competitive high school entrance examinations), and clan elders reported a greater understanding of the “classical” Nalik terminology used in traditional contexts. In this way children can be better educated for participation in their own society. This project has shown that traditional knowledge can be introduced into schools, and in English, without disrupting the use of a national curriculum, and therefore has significant ramifications in methods of revitalising a language through redesigned pedagogies, which we believe can be extended to other cultural and linguistic contexts.

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • The integration of indigenous knowledge in school: a systematic review
    C da Silva, F Pereira, JP Amorim
    Compare , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 216
  • Integrating local traditional wisdom into school: an example from Papua Guinea
    C da Silva, CA Volker
    State of the art of indigenous languages in research: a collection of … , 2022
    2022
  • Incorporating local knowledge and language in public primary schools
    C da Silva, JP Amorim, F Pereira, SCM Ferreira
    Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea Conference, 7-9 , 2021
    2021
  • Indigenous knowledge and language revival in post-colonial education in Papua New Guinea
    C da Silva, CA Volker
    Asian Linguistic Anthropology 3 (1), 76-97 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 1
  • Documentando a cultura tradicional local por meio de um projecto educativo interdisciplinar na Papua Nova Guiné
    C da Silva
    Ensaiar Arte e Ciência para Religar Natureza e Cultura 2, 93-110 , 2019
    2019
  • Documenting local traditional culture through an interdisciplinary educational project in Papua New Guinea
    C da Silva
    Cultura Natura: Rehearsing Science and Art to Re-connect Culture and Nature … , 2019
    2019
  • Algumas reflexões sobre a prática docente com compromisso ambiental
    C da Silva
    Interacções 14 (48), 89-100 , 2018
    2018
  • " Tell Us Your Story " : Documenting the Nalik Culture Through an Educational Project in Papua New Guinea
    C da Silva
    Asian Conference on Education & International Development, ACEID 2018, 17 , 2018
    2018
  • A Maani: Birds and Nalik Culture
    C da Silva, CA Volker
    Education Projects International LLC , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 4
  • Aves na cultura Nalik:(re) Conhecendo a voz da comunidade por meio da investigação-ação (Papua Nova Guiné)
    C da Silva
    PQDT-Global , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 3
  • As aves na cultura Nalik: um projeto educativo na Papua Nova Guiné
    C da Silva
    Conferência Internacional de Investigação, Práticas e Contextos em Educação … , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 1
  • Ciência e Arte, o origami no ensino da geometria: uma experiência interdisciplinar com alunos brasileiros no Japão
    C da Silva
    Atas do VII Encontro do CIED - II Encontro Internacional, Estética em Arte e … , 2017
    2017
  • Escolas brasileiras no Japão: Uma análise a partir do contexto migratório
    C da Silva
    Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies 2 (5), 410-428 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 2
  • O STATUS TEMPORÁRIO DA MULHER IMIGRANTE BRASILEIRA NO JAPÃO E A EDUCAÇÃO DE SEUS FILHOS
    C da Silva, AM Bortz, MFH Hiriart, MA Ikeda
    https://pt.scribd.com/document/200719516/O-status-tempora-rio-da-mulher … , 2014
    2014
  • A prática docente com compromisso ambiental: uma abordagem através de projetos interdisciplinares (TCC, Pedagogia)
    C da Silva
    Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Instituto de Educação , 2013
    2013
  • Differential detectability of rodents and birds in scats of ocelots, Leopardus pardalis (Mammalia: Felidae)
    MM Pires, CE Widmer, C da Silva, EZF Setz
    Zoologia (Curitiba) 28 (2), 280-283 , 2011
    2011
    Citations: 20
  • ALTERAÇÕES NA COMUNIDADE DE AVES DO MORRO DE ARAÇOIABA (FLORESTA NACIONAL DE IPANEMA-FLONA, IPERÓ, SP)
    C da Silva
    Revista Conhecimento Online 2, 32-67 , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 6
  • Zoológico é cenário para estudar ecologia: atividades educativas para alunos durante as férias
    C da Silva, N Erica
    Revista do Professor 16 (61), 38-44 , 2000
    2000
  • Utilização de aves como indicadoras de degradação ambiental
    LB Regalado, C da Silva
    Revista Brasileira de Ecologia, 81-83 , 1997
    1997
    Citations: 25
  • Registro de Laniisoma elegans (Thunberg, 1823) e Pyroderus Scutatus (Shaw, 1792) (Cotingidade) no município de Sorocaba, SP.
    C da Silva
    Boletim Centro de Estudos Ornitológicos - CEO, 32-35 , 1995
    1995

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • The integration of indigenous knowledge in school: a systematic review
    C da Silva, F Pereira, JP Amorim
    Compare , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 216
  • Utilização de aves como indicadoras de degradação ambiental
    LB Regalado, C da Silva
    Revista Brasileira de Ecologia, 81-83 , 1997
    1997
    Citations: 25
  • Differential detectability of rodents and birds in scats of ocelots, Leopardus pardalis (Mammalia: Felidae)
    MM Pires, CE Widmer, C da Silva, EZF Setz
    Zoologia (Curitiba) 28 (2), 280-283 , 2011
    2011
    Citations: 20
  • ALTERAÇÕES NA COMUNIDADE DE AVES DO MORRO DE ARAÇOIABA (FLORESTA NACIONAL DE IPANEMA-FLONA, IPERÓ, SP)
    C da Silva
    Revista Conhecimento Online 2, 32-67 , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 6
  • A Maani: Birds and Nalik Culture
    C da Silva, CA Volker
    Education Projects International LLC , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 4
  • Aves na cultura Nalik:(re) Conhecendo a voz da comunidade por meio da investigação-ação (Papua Nova Guiné)
    C da Silva
    PQDT-Global , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 3
  • Escolas brasileiras no Japão: Uma análise a partir do contexto migratório
    C da Silva
    Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies 2 (5), 410-428 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 2
  • Indigenous knowledge and language revival in post-colonial education in Papua New Guinea
    C da Silva, CA Volker
    Asian Linguistic Anthropology 3 (1), 76-97 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 1
  • As aves na cultura Nalik: um projeto educativo na Papua Nova Guiné
    C da Silva
    Conferência Internacional de Investigação, Práticas e Contextos em Educação … , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 1
  • Integrating local traditional wisdom into school: an example from Papua Guinea
    C da Silva, CA Volker
    State of the art of indigenous languages in research: a collection of … , 2022
    2022
  • Incorporating local knowledge and language in public primary schools
    C da Silva, JP Amorim, F Pereira, SCM Ferreira
    Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea Conference, 7-9 , 2021
    2021
  • Documentando a cultura tradicional local por meio de um projecto educativo interdisciplinar na Papua Nova Guiné
    C da Silva
    Ensaiar Arte e Ciência para Religar Natureza e Cultura 2, 93-110 , 2019
    2019
  • Documenting local traditional culture through an interdisciplinary educational project in Papua New Guinea
    C da Silva
    Cultura Natura: Rehearsing Science and Art to Re-connect Culture and Nature … , 2019
    2019
  • Algumas reflexões sobre a prática docente com compromisso ambiental
    C da Silva
    Interacções 14 (48), 89-100 , 2018
    2018
  • " Tell Us Your Story " : Documenting the Nalik Culture Through an Educational Project in Papua New Guinea
    C da Silva
    Asian Conference on Education & International Development, ACEID 2018, 17 , 2018
    2018
  • Ciência e Arte, o origami no ensino da geometria: uma experiência interdisciplinar com alunos brasileiros no Japão
    C da Silva
    Atas do VII Encontro do CIED - II Encontro Internacional, Estética em Arte e … , 2017
    2017
  • O STATUS TEMPORÁRIO DA MULHER IMIGRANTE BRASILEIRA NO JAPÃO E A EDUCAÇÃO DE SEUS FILHOS
    C da Silva, AM Bortz, MFH Hiriart, MA Ikeda
    https://pt.scribd.com/document/200719516/O-status-tempora-rio-da-mulher … , 2014
    2014
  • A prática docente com compromisso ambiental: uma abordagem através de projetos interdisciplinares (TCC, Pedagogia)
    C da Silva
    Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Instituto de Educação , 2013
    2013
  • Zoológico é cenário para estudar ecologia: atividades educativas para alunos durante as férias
    C da Silva, N Erica
    Revista do Professor 16 (61), 38-44 , 2000
    2000
  • Registro de Laniisoma elegans (Thunberg, 1823) e Pyroderus Scutatus (Shaw, 1792) (Cotingidade) no município de Sorocaba, SP.
    C da Silva
    Boletim Centro de Estudos Ornitológicos - CEO, 32-35 , 1995
    1995