Cultural hybridity and Australian children: speaking back to educational discourses about global citizenship

Niranjan Casinada; Catherine Manathunga

doi:10.1080/01596306.2019.1593108

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Cultural hybridity and Australian children: speaking back to educational discourses about global citizenship

Niranjan Casinada and Catherine Manathunga

Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Vol.41(6), pp.940-952

2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2019.1593108

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cultural identity

cultural understanding

diaspora

global citizenship

Transcultural

UniSC Diversity Area - Life Stages

Fluidity of cultural identity is an enduring inheritance of contemporary globalisation. One of the less-spoken consequences of this shift has been the increased pressures on young people as they navigate the transformation of their cultural identity between the new and the old. For this group, which comprises not only the children of migrants, but those born into families of multiple cultural heritages, the hybridisation of their cultural identity is occurring at a time of their lives when self-image is challenged on numerous fronts, especially at school. As scholars interested in cultural histories, geographies and pedagogies, the authors became interested in this research when they discovered mutual links with Sri Lanka and its post-1945 diaspora. This autobiographical family study draws upon micro history and life history techniques to demonstrate how the circumstances of their own families challenge macro-Australian education policy discourses about global citizenship, cultural identity and cultural understanding.

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Title: Cultural hybridity and Australian children: speaking back to educational discourses about global citizenship
Authors: Niranjan Casinada (Author) - Monash University
Catherine Manathunga (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - School of Education
Publication details: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Vol.41(6), pp.940-952
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2020
DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2019.1593108
ISSN: 0159-6306
Organisation Unit: Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Education and Tertiary Access; School of Education - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450640502621
Output Type: Journal article

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