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Rurality, Diversity and Schooling - Multiculturalism in Regional Australia

English · Paperback / Softback

Will be released 01.08.2025

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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.

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Authors Neroli Colvin, Greg Noble, Megan Watkins
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Release 01.08.2025
 
EAN 9781350368323
ISBN 978-1-350-36832-3
No. of pages 236
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system

Education, EDUCATION / Research, teacher training, EDUCATION / Teacher Training & Certification

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