Bloomsbury Publishing
Rurality, Diversity and Schooling : Multiculturalism in Regional Australia
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9781350368286
ISBN13:
9781350368286
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$140.90
Migration and refugee settlement policies have brought significant demographic changes to some regional centres over the past two decades and this book focuses on one such centre, a mid-size town in New South Wales. Historically, social relations in rural settlements have been enacted primarily within a "white/black" (Anglo/Indigenous) binary but in recent years this town has become home to several hundred refugees from Africa, South-East Asia and the Middle East. 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.
| Author: Neroli Colvin |
| Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Publication Date: Feb 22, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: 241 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: 1350368288 |
| ISBN-13: 9781350368286 |
Rurality, Diversity and Schooling : Multiculturalism in Regional Australia
$140.90
Migration and refugee settlement policies have brought significant demographic changes to some regional centres over the past two decades and this book focuses on one such centre, a mid-size town in New South Wales. Historically, social relations in rural settlements have been enacted primarily within a "white/black" (Anglo/Indigenous) binary but in recent years this town has become home to several hundred refugees from Africa, South-East Asia and the Middle East. 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.
| Author: Neroli Colvin |
| Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Publication Date: Feb 22, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: 241 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: 1350368288 |
| ISBN-13: 9781350368286 |
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