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Meaningful Inconsistencies: Bicultural Nationhood, the Free Market, and Schooling in Aotearoa: Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology

Autor Neriko Musha Doerr
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 iun 2009
School differentiates students-and provides differential access to various human and material resources-along a range of axes: from elected subjects and academic "achievement" to ethnicity, age, gender, or the language they speak. These categorizations, affected throughout the world by neoliberal reforms that prioritize market forces in transforming educational institutions, are especially stark in societies that recognize their bi- or multicultural makeup through bilingual education. A small town in Aotearoa/New Zealand, with its contemporary shift toward official biculturalism and extensive free-marketization of schooling, is a prime example. Set in the microcosm of a secondary school with a bilingual program, this important volume closely examines not only the implications of categorizing individuals in ethnic terms in their everyday life but also the shapes and meaning of education within the discourse of academic achievement. It is an essential resource for those interested in bilingual education and its effects on the formations of subjectivities, ethnic relations, and nationhood.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781845456092
ISBN-10: 1845456092
Pagini: 242
Dimensiuni: 159 x 19 x 236 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: BERGHAHN BOOKS INC
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Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Neriko Musha Doerr teaches at Salameno School of American and International Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA. Her research interests include bilingual and heritage language education and the anthropology of education.

Cuprins

List of tables List of maps Acknowledgments List of abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Shifting terrains: Aotearoa/New Zealand's changing nationhood Chapter 3. Categorizing: Changing official regimes of difference in Aotearoa/New Zealand Chapter 4. Inhabiting Waikaraka High School Chapter 5. Sorting: Tracking system and production of meanings Chapter 6. Calling it separatist: On conflating two regimes Chapter 7. Imagining "failure": The illusion of Maori under-achievement Chapter 8. Laughing: Language politics in the classroom Chapter 9. Laughing globally: Creation of alliances and globally homologous Chapter 10. Dancing: Cultural performance and nationhood Chapter 11. Conclusion and departure Bibliography Index

Recenzii

"Based on research undertaken at a time of neoliberal reform in the 1990s, when middle-class Asian students from other countries entered into New Zealand's particular ethnic mix of native students from Maori and Pakeha (European settlers) backgrounds...and written in an accessible yet rigorous style, [this study] engages with a wide range of theories regarding the function of modern education...Along the way, Neriko Doerr provides many delightfully surprising insights that promise to reframe bilingual education in other national settings." * John Borneman, Princeton University "[R]elevant to a far wider audience than those concerned with New Zealand. The issues of multiculturalism, biculturalism, language teaching in school, national policies about identity as experienced by teachers, students, administrators, etc., are issues of very general interest, particularly in the United States where all that is attempted in New Zealand is open for debate. In every way, Dr. Doerr's book is exemplary of what makes anthropology essential for developing our knowledge and reforming our policies." * Herve Varenne, Columbia University