Rurality, Diversity and Schooling
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Rurality, Diversity and Schooling

Multiculturalism in Regional Australia

  1. 236 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Rurality, Diversity and Schooling

Multiculturalism in Regional Australia

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Dedication
  5. Title
  6. Contents
  7. List of Tables
  8. Foreword, Megan Watkins and Greg Noble
  9. Preface – A Word on Words
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. List of Abbreviations
  12. Introduction: Rurality, Diversity and Schooling
  13. 1 ‘Our Diversity Is Great’ (Part 1): Diversity as a Multiplicity of ‘Cultures’
  14. 2 ‘Our Diversity Is Great’ (Part 2): Policies, Discourses and Public Opinion
  15. 3 Ends and Means: Researching Diversity in Regional Schools and Communities
  16. 4 ‘Sprinkles of Everything’: Names, Namings and Numbers
  17. 5 ‘Yes, but . . .’: Discourses, Affects and Sentiments
  18. 6 ‘Old Ways Die Hard’: Practices and Consequences
  19. Conclusion: Towards a Multiculturalism for All
  20. Notes
  21. References
  22. Index
  23. Copyright