TY - BOOK ID - 216964 TI - Race, ethnicity and education in globalised times AU - Arber, Ruth. AU - James, Paul. PY - 2008 SN - 1281206121 9786611206123 1402064586 1402064578 9048176476 PB - [Germany?] : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Racism KW - Race relations KW - Ethnic relations KW - Multicultural education KW - Globalization. KW - Research KW - Methodology. KW - Global cities KW - Globalisation KW - Internationalization KW - International relations KW - Anti-globalization movement KW - Intercultural education KW - Education KW - Culturally relevant pedagogy KW - Inter-ethnic relations KW - Interethnic relations KW - Relations among ethnic groups KW - Acculturation KW - Assimilation (Sociology) KW - Ethnic groups KW - Ethnology KW - Social problems KW - Sociology KW - Minorities KW - Integration, Racial KW - Race problems KW - Race question KW - Relations, Race KW - Bias, Racial KW - Race bias KW - Race prejudice KW - Racial bias KW - Prejudices KW - Anti-racism KW - Sociology of Education. KW - Educational Philosophy. KW - Educational Policy and Politics. KW - International and Comparative Education. KW - Philosophy. KW - Educational sociology. KW - Education—Philosophy. KW - Educational policy. KW - Education and state. KW - International education . KW - Comparative education. KW - Education, Comparative KW - Global education KW - Intellectual cooperation KW - Internationalism KW - Education policy KW - Educational policy KW - State and education KW - Social policy KW - Endowment of research KW - Education and sociology KW - Social problems in education KW - Society and education KW - Sociology, Educational KW - History KW - Government policy KW - Aims and objectives UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:216964 AB - This book broaches what has become a ‘noisy silence’ whereby conversations about race and ethnic relationships are understood as unbalanced, irrelevant or as too dangerous to speak about. It is concerned with the ways that race and ethnic relationships are spoken about in contemporary western societies such as Australia and the changed and confused debates that underpin those discussions. Parents and teachers at one State secondary school in Melbourne, Australia speak about race and ethnic relationships as their school community is increasingly altered by globalising, technological and population change. Newspapers and public policy debates avoid discussions about race relationships even as discussions about national identity and direction are crucial themes. This book argues that race and ethnic relationships must be understood in new ways; that the analytical frameworks provided by constructivist thought and post-colonial writing must be interrogated to provide more comprehensive methodological resources to examine these relationships. Recent events, such as attacks on New York, Madrid and London, and riots in Paris and Sydney, suggest that the social world as we know it has changed. The new sense of danger which has emerged in increasingly globalised times is the re-emergence of an other identity which is no longer easily identifiable as inside or outside of who-we-are. That they could be anyone-of-us, even as their presence as an-other is made concretely and terrifyingly real, adds a new and frightening overlay to the discussion of contemporary race and ethnic relations. "This book works on so many different levels - as a research narrative; as a story of the policy of multiculturalism in Australia; as an account of a struggle to interpret cultural differences; as an ethnography of a school dealing with profound demographic changes; and as an interpretation of how change occurs and re-shapes not only people but also institutions." Fazal Rizvi, Professor in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. ER -