The presence of an-other: the prescience of racism in post-modern times
Arber, Ruth 2003, The presence of an-other: the prescience of racism in post-modern times, Journal of educational change, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 249-268, doi: 10.1023/B:JEDU.0000006163.10946.13.
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The presence of an-other: the prescience of racism in post-modern times
In this paper, I explore conversations with teachers and parents at one Melbourne secondary school, as the modern definition of identity,defined at the end of the 1980s, took on the fluidity of post-modern definition a decade later. Even as identification seemed contingent and negotiated, and difference seemed to disappear, teachers and parents continued to understand their identity in relation to the ambivalent definition of others. This became increasingly frightening as notions of otherness, and therefore of self, became increasingly fluid and unclear. That which seemed other and outside, now appears as part-of-us and inside-us-all. Even as descriptions of difference, and thereforeidentity, become more fluid, conceptions of otherness – and therefore – self, do not disappear. Prescient manifestations of exclusion and racism are contiguous with, yet in juxtaposition to, older forms.
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