EDUC373 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ethnocentrism, Acculturation, White Australia Policy
15 Oct 2018
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Australian context of multiculturalism: relationship between multiculturalism and language/ literacy (welch chapter) Ways of seeing language as a problem/right and resource. Implications for the cultures of australian education: muslim australians, recent chinese immigration. Support for teaching of languages, as strong vehicle of understanding cultural difference. Multi/intercultural-understanding ourselves and the other 3 level relationship (gadamer) Open dialogue; reciprocal; understanding the other comes from understanding the self. White australis attitudes to other cultures and languages. 200-250 aboriginal languages spoken at invasion, multilingualism common. To the 1870s, signi cant use of non english languages for social economic and educational purposes, bilingual schools, newspapers. Between 1872-1880 education acts" in various colonies imposed english monolingualism on mainstream schools. Use of foreign language aboriginal language discouraged/banned, shameful. Preceding federation, and ww1, hostile and restrictive attitude to (esp. Post ww2 immigration for labour force: monolingual assimilation. White australia policy, language as a tool of exclusion for undesirable.
