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ERIC EJ944894: "District Nine" and Constructions of the O... |
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Culturally responsive research and pedagogy are a |
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challenge in classrooms that are increasingly |
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heterogeneous. I start from the premise that culture is |
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dynamic not static, that difference is a resource for new |
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ways of doing, thinking and believing, that identity is |
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hybrid. The challenge for teachers is how to harness the |
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productive potential of diverse classrooms for pedagogy. |
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John Thompson (1990) argues that discourses of |
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"unification" which construct an "us", and discourses of |
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"fragmentation" which construct a "them", produce and |
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maintain relations of power. Us/them discourse will be |
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explored in the South African context in relation to both |
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apartheid's racial othering and post-apartheid's |
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xenophobic othering. The South African film, "District |
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Nine", which can be interpreted as both forms of |
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othering, is presented as a case for considering these |
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ideas. (Contains 4 figures, 1 table, and 2 footnotes.) |
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["'District Nine' and Constructions of the Other: |
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Implications for Heterogeneous Classrooms" was written |
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with Roseline Adegoke.] |
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Date Published: 2018-09-30 05:38:50 |
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Identifier: ERIC_EJ944894 |
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Item Size: 16836929 |
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Language: english |
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Media Type: texts |
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