TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘But we’re not a multicultural school!’
T2 - locating intercultural relations and reimagining intercultural education as an act of ‘coming-to-terms-with our routes’
AU - Davies, Tanya
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2023/7
Y1 - 2023/7
N2 - Learning to live in a superdiverse world might be heralded as one of the great social challenges of our time. In the last decade, intercultural education has been posed as one way to foster intercultural capabilities in young people that can contribute towards learning to live well with cultural difference. As the diaspora in Australia—and elsewhere—expands, developing intercultural understanding is seen as a priority. Despite the directives of official policy and curriculum, enacting intercultural education in meaningful ways is complex and fraught. This paper reports on an Australian ethnography at a predominantly ‘white’ school that examined the way productions of cultural difference across school spaces complicate teachers’ intercultural work. This paper considers how intercultural understanding might move beyond celebrations of multiculturalism, arguing that ‘coming-to-terms with our routes’ necessarily prefigures intercultural understanding and provides opportunity for an intercultural education beyond a celebration of multiculturalism.
AB - Learning to live in a superdiverse world might be heralded as one of the great social challenges of our time. In the last decade, intercultural education has been posed as one way to foster intercultural capabilities in young people that can contribute towards learning to live well with cultural difference. As the diaspora in Australia—and elsewhere—expands, developing intercultural understanding is seen as a priority. Despite the directives of official policy and curriculum, enacting intercultural education in meaningful ways is complex and fraught. This paper reports on an Australian ethnography at a predominantly ‘white’ school that examined the way productions of cultural difference across school spaces complicate teachers’ intercultural work. This paper considers how intercultural understanding might move beyond celebrations of multiculturalism, arguing that ‘coming-to-terms with our routes’ necessarily prefigures intercultural understanding and provides opportunity for an intercultural education beyond a celebration of multiculturalism.
KW - Australian curriculum
KW - Difficult histories
KW - Intercultural education
KW - Productions of space
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U2 - 10.1007/s13384-022-00537-0
DO - 10.1007/s13384-022-00537-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85130693779
SN - 0311-6999
VL - 50
SP - 991
EP - 1005
JO - Australian Educational Researcher
JF - Australian Educational Researcher
IS - 3
ER -