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Finding a Way in for Interculturality: Analysing History Teachers' Conceptualisations at the Secondary School Level
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Garrard, Kerri Anne – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
'Intercultural understanding' (ICU) and its core concept 'interculturality', was introduced in the new national curriculum, implemented across Australia from 2013 (Australian Curriculum, ACARA. [2013]. Australian curriculum V.60. Retrieved from http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/copyright). This paper draws on a study conducted in Victoria,…
Descriptors: History, Secondary School Teachers, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries
The Civic Potential of Memes and Hashtags in the Lives of Young People
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Mihailidis, Paul – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
Young people today are immersed in digital culture: often considered savvy navigators of online ecosystems and adept at using everyday technologies to share, create and express. These technologies are often seen as social and personal tools instead of spaces for meaningful participation. This paper shares the results of an investigation in young…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Visual Aids, Social Media, Mass Media Use
Smooth Conversations: Sexuality as a Linguistic Resource in a Secondary Language Classroom
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Simonsson, Angelica – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
In the present article, the interlinking between language and sexuality in a secondary language classroom is explored. The aim of the article is to examine use of performances of sexuality in conversation practices in an English classroom in a Swedish secondary school. The data production method is classroom observations, and the examples analysed…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Grade 8, Sexuality, Interpersonal Communication
Homophobia, Transphobia, Young People and the Question of Responsibility
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Rasmussen, Mary Lou; Sanjakdar, Fida; Allen, Louisa; Quinlivan, Kathleen; Bromdal, Annette – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
Young people may face conflicting and confusing messages about what it means to respond well in relation to homophobia and transphobia. Consequently, we ask--What might it mean to respond well to homophobia and transphobia? This strategy, inspired by Anika Thiem and Judith Butler, is recognition of the ambivalent conditions which structure…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity
The "Australian Curriculum: History"--The Challenges of a Thin Curriculum?
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Ditchburn, Geraldine – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
The "Australian Curriculum: History" has emerged out of a neoliberal federal education policy landscape. This is a policy landscape where pragmatic and performative, rather than pedagogic concerns are clearly foregrounded, and this has implications for curriculum development and implementation. A useful way to conceptualise the features,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Curriculum, Educational Policy
Seeing Futures in Ballet: The Storylines of Four Student Ballet Dancers
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Loch, Sarah – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
This paper explores the storylines of four student ballet dancers who attend a specialist performing arts secondary school and who, in differing ways, envisage futures which "look straight at ballet". When decisions about schooling intermingle with long-held imaginings of futures in ballet, thought is provoked about ways the young…
Descriptors: Dance, Special Schools, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes