Routledge
Chinese Language and Culture Education : Representation, Imagination and Ideology of China in Australian Schools
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9781032456027
ISBN13:
9781032456027
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$188.63
Against the background of the Australian government's strategic plan to promote Asian languages in schools, this book is an innovative autoethnographic inquiry of what actually occurs in the implementation of a Chinese language and culture program in an Australian context. Drawing on eight years of socio-cultural and educational fieldwork in an Australian primary school, this book examines the complex, fluid, and heterogeneous daily teaching practices and the ways in which ideas of China are assembled, presented, and performed in the classroom. It asks the questions: where does Taiwan fit into the China depicted in a western classroom? Can Chinese communism or Chairman Mao be avoided in teaching English-speaking learners? What kind of China is presented in the western context while what kind of China is being silenced and othered? Making an important contribution to the sociology of Chinese language education, Zhang uses an autoethnographic approach to interpret these concepts, through her self-presentation as a native Chinese language teacher performing her political choices through teaching as an Asian-immigrant professional woman in the Western world. This book is an essential and rich content resource for primary and secondary teacher education and research, teacher candidates and educators in Chinese as a Second Language education.
| Author: CHUNYAN. ZHANG |
| Publisher: Routledge |
| Publication Date: Apr 02, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: 1032456027 |
| ISBN-13: 9781032456027 |
Chinese Language and Culture Education : Representation, Imagination and Ideology of China in Australian Schools
$188.63
Against the background of the Australian government's strategic plan to promote Asian languages in schools, this book is an innovative autoethnographic inquiry of what actually occurs in the implementation of a Chinese language and culture program in an Australian context. Drawing on eight years of socio-cultural and educational fieldwork in an Australian primary school, this book examines the complex, fluid, and heterogeneous daily teaching practices and the ways in which ideas of China are assembled, presented, and performed in the classroom. It asks the questions: where does Taiwan fit into the China depicted in a western classroom? Can Chinese communism or Chairman Mao be avoided in teaching English-speaking learners? What kind of China is presented in the western context while what kind of China is being silenced and othered? Making an important contribution to the sociology of Chinese language education, Zhang uses an autoethnographic approach to interpret these concepts, through her self-presentation as a native Chinese language teacher performing her political choices through teaching as an Asian-immigrant professional woman in the Western world. This book is an essential and rich content resource for primary and secondary teacher education and research, teacher candidates and educators in Chinese as a Second Language education.
| Author: CHUNYAN. ZHANG |
| Publisher: Routledge |
| Publication Date: Apr 02, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: 1032456027 |
| ISBN-13: 9781032456027 |
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