Identities, Practices and Education of Evolving Multicultural Families in Asia-Pacific

Gube, Jan Christian C; Gao, Fang; Bhowmik, Miron Kumar

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“…The education of children is a years-long encounter with self and Other, and with the heterogenous ways of being, knowing, and doing that occur within any society. Researchers in the fields of multicultural and intercultural education (Gube et al, 2022;Halse, 2021;Kennedy, 2022) observe that diversity takes many forms and requires ongoing commitments to the critical work of addressing systemic and structural inequalities, and to education as a key site of social transformation and change. However, diversity is not a characteristic of those groups deemed Other as compared to a presumed distinctive, homogenous "local" culture, and descriptions of it as such tacitly negate diversity as a condition of everyday life in every place and society.…”

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Diversity as a Condition of Cultures: Querying Assumptions of Mainstream and Minorities in Education Policy and Curriculum

Saltmarsh

2022

ECNU Review of Education

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Highlights Discussions of diversity in relation to children's education are often characterized by binaries of same/different, mainstream/margins, inclusion/exclusion, self/Other. Curriculum remains a contested site in educational debate, with differing views about curriculum as reinforcing social norms, beliefs, and values, as addressing the learning and social needs of learners from a variety of backgrounds and worldviews, or as a hybrid of these. Policy and curriculum designed or intended to address diversity tend to rest on assumptions of majority or dominant cultures as homogenous and distinct from the cultures of minority Other/s. Inequality is often multidimensional, intersecting with, perpetuating, and reinforcing other inequalities and human rights violations affecting children and families. Understanding culture in terms of heterogenous practices of everyday life shifts the focus of discussion and debate toward more nuanced understandings of Otherness, difference and diversity as operating within, as well as between, cultures.

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Section: Concluding Thoughtsmentioning

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Diversity as a Condition of Cultures: Querying Assumptions of Mainstream and Minorities in Education Policy and Curriculum

Saltmarsh

2022

ECNU Review of Education

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Identities, Practices and Education of Evolving Multicultural Families in Asia-Pacific

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Diversity as a Condition of Cultures: Querying Assumptions of Mainstream and Minorities in Education Policy and Curriculum

Diversity as a Condition of Cultures: Querying Assumptions of Mainstream and Minorities in Education Policy and Curriculum

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