Race, ethnicity and education in globalised times / Ruth Arber ; foreword by Paul James.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arber, Ruth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism in education--Australia.

Racism in education.

Race relations.

Ethnic relations.

Globalization.

Australia.

Physical Description:

xii, 214 pages ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Race, ethnicity and education in globalized times

Place of Publication:

[Dordrecht] : Springer, 2008.

Summary:

This book broaches what has become a "noisy silence" whereby conversations about race and ethnic relationships are understood as unbalanced, irrelevant or as too dangerous to speak about. It is concerned with the ways that race and ethnic relationships are spoken about in contemporary western societies such as Australia and the changed and confused debates that underpin those discussions. Parents and teachers at one State secondary school in Melbourne Australia speak about race and ethnic relationships as their school community is increasingly altered by globalising, technological and population change. Newspapers and public policy debates avoid discussions about race relationships even as discussions about national identity and direction are crucial themes. This book argues that race and ethnic relationships must be understood in new ways; that the analytical framewworks provided by constructivist thought and post-colonial writing must be interrogated to provide more comprehensive methodological resources to examine these relationships. Recent events, such as attacks on New York, Madrid and London, and riots in Paris and Sydney, suggest that the social world as we know it has changed. The new sense of danger which has emerged in increasingly globalised times is the re-emergence of an other identity which is no longer easily identifiable as inside or outside of who-we-are. That they could be anyone-of-us, even as their presence as another is made concretely and terrifyingly real, adds a new and frightening overlay to the discussion of contemporary race and ethnic relations.

Contents:

1 Encountering Silent Noise 1

1.1 A Considered Approach 6

1.2 The Terms of Race 9

1.3 Whispering in My Heart 14

2 Encountering Silent Narrations: Beginning the Research 17

2.1 Setting up the Research 19

2.2 Re-Entering the School 22

2.3 Interrogation "Muddles" 27

3 Beyond Silent Noise: Articulating Methodology 39

3.1 Framing Narrations 41

3.2 Mapping Identity 45

3.3 Mapping the "Other" 49

3.4 Mapping Relationships 51

3.5 Mapping Silence 55

3.6 An Analytical Frame 58

4 Race and Ethnicity in Globalised Times 61

4.1 Imagining Communities 63

4.2 Snapshots: The Press 66

4.2.1 1989 66

4.2.2 1999 71

4.2.3 2003 75

4.2.4 Merging Boundaries 78

4.3 Snapshots: Policy Documents 79

4.3.1 1989 79

4.3.2 1999 81

4.3.3 2003 82

4.4 The State of Victoria 84

4.5 Concepts of Multiculturalism 87

5 Changing Identities in a Local School 93

5.1 1988 94

5.1.1 Changing Demographics 94

5.1.2 Dealing with Demographic Change 97

5.1.3 Multicultural Weeks 98

5.1.4 Teaching English 99

5.1.5 Teaching Languages Other than English 100

5.1.6 Experiencing it 101

5.1.7 Disruptive Fragments 104

5.2 1998 107

5.2.1 Changing Demographics 107

5.2.2 Dealing with Demographic Change 111

5.2.3 Multicultural Days 111

5.2.4 Teaching English 112

5.2.5 Learning Languages Other than English 113

5.2.6 Internationalising Strategies 115

5.2.7 Experiencing it 117

5.2.8 Disruptive Fragments 118

5.3 Beyond Practices and Fields 121

6 Mapping the "Other" 123

6.1 Speaking About "Other" Groups 124

6.2 Of Great Love and Immense Hate 132

6.3 Safe Spaces/Dangerous Places 143

6.4 Other Narrations 153

7 Mapping Ourselves 155

7.1 Speaking of us 156

7.2 Negotiating Identity 158

7.3 The Terror of it 172

7.4 Between Disrupted Narratives 176

8 Another Identity 179

8.1 Re-imagining Research Methodology 181

8.2 Re-writing the Terms of Race 184

8.3 Re-assessing Classroom Conversations 187

8.4 Beyond Noisy-Silent Whispering 192.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781402064579

1402064578

OCLC:

166367176