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Speaking of race and ethnic identities : exploring multicultural curricula

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posted on 2024-06-03, 07:39 authored by R Arber
New demographic patterns as well as new communication and information technologies and administrative and marketing practices have irrevocably altered schools in Australia's large cities. This study examines the ways that teachers and parents in one urban school speak about race and ethnicity in the midst of these changes. Beneath the ironic relationship between difference and sameness which underpins multicultural debate are different understandings that determine ways some belong and some do not belong within the school community. This paradoxical relationship persists, despite increasingly post-modern definitions of identity that underpin the field of this debate. I conclude that the examination of multicultural curricula must include the normalized ways of knowing and 'being' identity, which underpin conversations about race and identity.

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Journal

Journal of curriculum studies

Volume

37

Pagination

633-652

Location

Abingdon, England

ISSN

0022-0272

eISSN

1366-5839

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2005,Taylor & Francis

Issue

6

Publisher

Routledge

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