EDU1142 CULTURE AND IDENTITY IN EDUCATION

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EDU1142 CULTURE AND IDENTITY IN EDUCATION
CLASS
GENDER
RACE
AXES OF IDENTITY RACE
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GENDER

CLASS



RACE

• Race as frames and discourses
• Simple complex
• Located generalised
• Race is often confused with other identifiers
• Weaving the complex strands of the identity
  tapestry
• Race
• Ethnicity
• Culture
• Nationality

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GENDER

CLASS

RACE

• Contestation of group and individual identities
• Racial identity
• Cultural identity
• Ethnic identity
• National identity
• Who am I? How do I look?
• Australianiety

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GENDER

CLASS

RACE

• Race as otherness Saids Orientalism
• Race biological traits
• Race cultural traits
• Race as a social construct
• Requires at least two groups named naming
• Naming ---- process/act ----- named
• Constructs/assigns/allocates/assumes usually
  based on what the namer assumes they are NOT

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GENDER

CLASS


RACE

• white as a racial concept
• Whiteness as unchallenged assumptions and
  locators of power and hegemony
• 2020 demography of Australia
• The Age commentary on the meaning of British
• http//www.theage.com.au/news/20001012/A44962-2000
  Oct11.html
• Australian-australian

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GENDER

CLASS

RACE

• Race and intelligence
• The Bell Curve
• Measured Lies
• (Reviews of these articles are available on the
  website)
• PLURALISM MULTICULTURALISM Vs HOMOGENEITY
  MELTING POT
• Acknowledging difference
• Valuing difference
• Living with difference
• NOT tolerance with deference to Hage

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GENDER

CLASS

RACE

• The Australian experience of racism
• Indigenous Australians Aborigines and Torres
  Strait Islanders
• White Australia policy
• Post 1967
• Native Title
• Reconciliation

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GENDER

CLASS

RACE

• Indigenous Australians Aborigines and Torres
  Strait Islanders
• Differing experiences of racism
• Similar experiences of racism
• Social Darwinism and the structure of
  civilization

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GENDER

CLASS

RACE

• White Australia policy
• Social filters to create a society
• Population and workforce realities
• Post-WW2 nationalization in SE Asia
• Post-Vietnam
• New millenium revisitation of old policies

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GENDER

CLASS

RACE

• Post 1967
• Whitlam and the new initiatives
• Lifestyle, social structure and affluence
• Liberalism vs Radicalism
• Commodification of indigeneity

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GENDER

CLASS

RACE

• Native Title
• The new conservatism
• Native Title realities
• Notions of home

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GENDER

CLASS

RACE

• Reconciliation
• Australia has a black history
• Cultural pluralism and social harmony
• Homi Bhabhas Third Space and post-September 11