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Berghahn Books Meaningful Inconsistencies Bicultural Nationhood the Free Market and Schooling in Aotearoa/New Zealand 2009 Edition by 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. Table of contents :- List of tablesList of mapsAcknowledgmentsList of abbreviationsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Shifting terrains: Aotearoa/New Zealand's changing nationhoodChapter 3. Categorizing: Changing official regimes of difference in Aotearoa/New ZealandChapter 4. Inhabiting Waikaraka High SchoolChapter 5. Sorting: Tracking system and production of meaningsChapter 6. Calling it separatist: On conflating two regimesChapter 7. Imagining "failure": The illusion of Maori under-achievementChapter 8. Laughing: Language politics in the classroomChapter 9. Laughing globally: Creation of alliances and globally homologousChapter 10. Dancing: Cultural performance and nationhoodChapter 11. Conclusion and departureBibliographyIndex