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  • Migrant, Habitus

    A Bourdieusian Analysis of Lebanese-Australian Settling Practices

    Series series Global Migration and Social Change
    Every migrant journey reshapes both the people undergoing it and the places it encounters.This book explores how Lebanese-Australians navigate settlement as they rework the resources they bring and acquire new ones. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research across generations, it highlights the cultural, temporal and generational dimensions of migration, showing how everyday practices shape ... Read more

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  • Rurality, Diversity and Schooling

    Multiculturalism in Regional Australia

    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 ... Read more

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  • Doing Diversity Differently in a Culturally Complex World

    Critical Perspectives on Multicultural Education

    Doing Diversity Differently in a Culturally Complex Worldexplores the challenges facing multicultural education in the 21st century. It argues that the ideas fashioned in 1970s 'multiculturalism' are no longer adequate for the culturally complex world in which we now live. Much multicultural education celebrates superficial forms of difference and avoids difficult questions around culture in an ... Read more

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  • Assembling and Governing Habits

    Series series CRESC
    The increasing significance of managing or changing habits is evident across a range of pressing contemporary issues: climate change, waste management, travel practices, and crowd control. Assembling and Governing Habits engages with the diverse ways in which habits are governed through the knowledge practices and technologies that have been brought to bear on them.The volume addresses three main ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Disposed to Learn

    Schooling, Ethnicity and the Scholarly Habitus

    Disposed to Learn explores the relationship between ethnicity and dispositions towards learning, with a focus on primary school students of Chinese, Pasifika and Anglo Australian backgrounds. The authors challenge the tendency towards the essentializing of ethnicity within multiculturalism to argue for a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between culture and academic performance. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Cultural Pedagogies and Human Conduct

    Series series CRESC
    Pedagogy is often glossed as the ‘art and science of teaching’ but this focus typically ties it to the instructional practices of formalised schooling. Like the emerging work on ‘public pedagogies’, the notion of cultural pedagogies signals the importance of the pedagogic in realms other than institutionalised education, but goes beyond the notion of public pedagogies in two ways: it includes ... Read more

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  • Fields, Capitals, Habitus

    Australian Culture, Inequalities and Social Divisions

    Series series CRESC
    Fields, Capitals, Habitus provides an insightful analysis of the relations between culture and society in contemporary Australia. Presenting the findings of a detailed national survey of Australian cultural tastes and practices, it demonstrates the pivotal significance of the role culture plays at the intersections of a range of social divisions and inequalities: between classes, age cohorts, ... Read more

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  • Convivialities

    Possibility and Ambivalence in Urban Multicultures

    Edited by Amanda Wise, Greg Noble ...
    We live in a time of rising anti-immigrant fervour and attacks on multiculturalism. As Stuart Hall argued over twenty years ago, the capacity to live with difference is the pressing issue of our time. This is true perhaps now more than ever.This collection takes a critical look at the ‘conviviality turn’ in our understanding of coexistence and urban multiculture. Drawing on case studies out of the ... Read more

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  • Cultures of Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

    Pedagogies for Cultural Difference and Social Access

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This volume examines the ways schools respond to cultural and linguistic diversity. A richness of accumulated experience is portrayed in this study of six Australian secondary schools; partial success, near success or instructive failure as the culture of the school itself was transformed in an attempt to meet the educational needs of its students. Set in the context of a general historical ... Read more

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    Elements of a Science of Education

    In the second edition of New Learning: Elements of a Science of Education, renowned authors Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope explore the contemporary debates and challenges in education. In this time of dramatic social change, education represents significant possibilities and opportunities. Written in accessible and lively style, this book examines learners and their learning environments and ... Read more

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  • Research in Art and Design Education

    Issues and Exemplars

    Edited by Richard Hickman ...
    Series series Readings in Art and Design Education
    Although educators are increasingly interested in art education research, there are few anthologies tackling the subject. Research in Art & Design Education answers this call, summarizing important issues in the field such as non-text based approaches and interdisciplinary work. Contributions from internationally renowned researchers explore a broad range of topics in art education, highlighting ... Read more

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  • Ethnography in Social Science Practice

    Edited by Julie Scott-Jones, Sal Watt ...
    Ethnography in Social Science Practice explores ethnography’s increasing use across the social sciences, beyond its traditional bases in social anthropology and sociology. It explores the disciplinary roots of ethnographic research within social anthropology, and contextualizes it within both field and disciplinary settings.The book is of two parts: Part one places ethnography as a methodology in ... Read more

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