Discursive compartmentalization in a critical multicultural classroom
| Autor: | T. Ruanni F. Tupas, Rhoda Myra Garces-Bacsal |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Cultural Studies Linguistics and Language Conceptualization Communication media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050301 education 06 humanities and the arts State (polity) Multiculturalism Cultural diversity 0602 languages and literature Pedagogy Postprint Sociology Ideology 0503 education media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Multicultural Discourses. 11:34-50 |
| ISSN: | 1747-6615 1744-7143 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17447143.2015.1134543 |
| Popis: | What happens when critical discourses are introduced in the classroom? How do students make sense of these discourses in the light of their experiences as teachers? What is the role of the state and its ideologies in shaping the way critical discourses are apprehended in the classroom? This paper aims to map out the discursive (re)configurations of one particular classroom in Singapore where in-service teachers are introduced to critical multicultural discourses. Our data have shown that teachers compartmentalize two sets of discourses in order to make critical discourses more acceptable to them. On the one hand, they affirm and endorse critical multicultural discourses in the classroom; on the other hand, they go back to State-defined discourses which radically limit multiculturalism to official conceptualization and deployment of race-based pedagogy. A typical approach to investigating contending discourses is how one overpowers the other, or how they mesh together to form another distinct disco... |
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