Rurality, Diversity and Schooling: Multiculturalism in Regional Australia
Autor Neroli Colvin Dr Megan Watkins, Dr Greg Nobleen Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 feb 2024
Using interview, observational and documentary data, the book examines how multiculturalism is understood, valued and lived in the town's two public high schools. Schools are key sites for everyday interactions between people from diverse ethnic, cultural, language and religious backgrounds. Drawing on critical theories of discourse, space and race, the book examines a host of anxieties in the town and its schools about recent demographic changes revealing how notions of rurality, steeped in colonial narratives about European settlement, productivity and racial superiority, continue to shape how "difference" is perceived and experienced in regional communities.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350368286
ISBN-10: 1350368288
Pagini: 236
Ilustrații: 10 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350368288
Pagini: 236
Ilustrații: 10 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Preface by Megan Watkins and Gregory Noble
Introduction: Rurality, Diversity and Schooling
1. Diversity as a Multiplicity of "Cultures": "Our Diversity is Great" (Part 1)
2. Policies, Discourses and Public Opinion: "Our Diversity is Great" (Part 2)
3. Researching Diversity in Regional Schools and Communities: Ends and Means
4. Names, Namings and Numbers: "Sprinkles of Everything"
5. Discourses, Affects and Sentiments: "Yes, but."
6. Practices and Consequences: "Old Ways Die Hard"
Conclusion: Towards a Multiculturalism for All
Postscript
References
Appendices
Introduction: Rurality, Diversity and Schooling
1. Diversity as a Multiplicity of "Cultures": "Our Diversity is Great" (Part 1)
2. Policies, Discourses and Public Opinion: "Our Diversity is Great" (Part 2)
3. Researching Diversity in Regional Schools and Communities: Ends and Means
4. Names, Namings and Numbers: "Sprinkles of Everything"
5. Discourses, Affects and Sentiments: "Yes, but."
6. Practices and Consequences: "Old Ways Die Hard"
Conclusion: Towards a Multiculturalism for All
Postscript
References
Appendices
Recenzii
Focusing upon two state high schools in rural Australia, Colvin presents an empirically rich and engaging analysis of multicultural diversity. This important book challenges assumptions that associate rural contexts with whiteness and asks incisive questions about the language and narratives of diversity, including the silences and exclusions involved.
This book makes a powerful and unique contribution to the growing field of antiracist studies of education and rurality. Colvin's research provides a detailed and unflinching study of diversity, racism and the realities of policy and practice in a regional Australian town. Hidden contradictions and power-plays are explored in a bold, nuanced and complex analysis that has international relevance.
It is unsettling reading to learn common-sense and feel-good ideas about 'difference' and 'diversity' are
entangled with the reproduction of racial hierarchies and inequalities, but it also gives space to thinking about other ways schools can operate to build inclusion and belonging. It moves beyond critique to identify ways schooling outside cities can operate to be more equitable and inclusive.
This is a superb book. Urgent, because the countryside too often drifts out of the analysis of racialised social relations; compelling, in the attention it pays to school life in small towns which are more multicultural than imagined; rigorous in its systematic use of 'thick', detailed data; and beautifully written throughout. Neroli Colvin uses a rural lens to lift the hood of modern Australian discourse around multiculturalism and uncovers the persistent contradictions and coloniality that shape it.
This book makes a powerful and unique contribution to the growing field of antiracist studies of education and rurality. Colvin's research provides a detailed and unflinching study of diversity, racism and the realities of policy and practice in a regional Australian town. Hidden contradictions and power-plays are explored in a bold, nuanced and complex analysis that has international relevance.
It is unsettling reading to learn common-sense and feel-good ideas about 'difference' and 'diversity' are
entangled with the reproduction of racial hierarchies and inequalities, but it also gives space to thinking about other ways schools can operate to build inclusion and belonging. It moves beyond critique to identify ways schooling outside cities can operate to be more equitable and inclusive.
This is a superb book. Urgent, because the countryside too often drifts out of the analysis of racialised social relations; compelling, in the attention it pays to school life in small towns which are more multicultural than imagined; rigorous in its systematic use of 'thick', detailed data; and beautifully written throughout. Neroli Colvin uses a rural lens to lift the hood of modern Australian discourse around multiculturalism and uncovers the persistent contradictions and coloniality that shape it.