Meaningful Inconsistencies : : Bicultural Nationhood, the Free Market, and Schooling in Aotearoa/New Zealand / / Neriko Musha Doerr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Doerr, Neriko Musha,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; TABLES --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; INTRODUCTION --; 1 SHIFTING TERRAINS Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Changing Nationhood --; 2 CATEGORIZING Changing Official Regimes of Difference in Aotearoa/New Zealand Statistical Publications --; 3 INHABITING WAIKARAKA HIGH SCHOOL Daily Life at Waikaraka High School and Fieldwork Experiences --; 4 SORTING The Tracking System and Production of Meanings --; 5 CALLING IT SEPARATIST On Conflating Two Regimes of Difference --; 6 IMAGINING “FAILURE” The Illusion of Māori Underachievement and Institutional, Ethnic, and Academic Regimes of Difference --; 7 LAUGHING Language Politics in the Classroom --; 8 LAUGHING GLOBALLY Creation of Alliances and Globally Homologous Regimes of Difference --; 9 DANCING Cultural Performance and Nationhood --; 10 CONCLUSION AND DEPARTURE --; GLOSSARY --; REFERENCES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781845459338; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9781845459338
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Neriko Musha Doerr.

School differentiates students-and provides differential access to various human and material resources-along a range of axes: from elected subjects and academic "achievement" to ethnicity, age, gender, or the language they speak. These categorizations, affected throughout the world by neoliberal reforms that prioritize market forces in transforming educational institutions, are especially stark in societies that recognize their bi- or multicultural makeup through bilingual education. A small town in Aotearoa/New Zealand, with its contemporary shift toward official biculturalism and extensive free-marketization of schooling, is a prime example. Set in the microcosm of a secondary school with a bilingual program, this important volume closely examines not only the implications of categorizing individuals in ethnic terms in their everyday life but also the shapes and meaning of education within the discourse of academic achievement. It is an essential resource for those interested in bilingual education and its effects on the formations of subjectivities, ethnic relations, and nationhood.