The Asia Literacy Dilemma 1st Edition 2022 Hardbound by Cairns, Rebecca, Taylor and Francis Ltd

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Taylor and Francis Ltd The Asia Literacy Dilemma 1st Edition 2022 Hardbound by Cairns, Rebecca

The Asia literacy dilemma brings forward a novel approach to the long-standing global debates of Asia-related teaching and learning. By bringing into focus 'Asia' as a curriculum area, the book provides original commentary on the rationale and feasibility of 'Asia literacy' and its role and significance within and for twenty-first-century education._x000D__x000D_The book's unique contribution lies in a comprehensive problematisation of 'Asia' as planned, enacted and experienced curriculum, bringing together policy, teacher practice and student experiences to present an extensive discussion. By contextualising the problematics of Asia-related curriculum within contemporary national and transnational curriculum challenges, Cairns and Weinmann take account of conflicting discourses of nation-building, ethnocentrism, transnationalism, geo-economics and the purposes of twenty-first-century education. Its use of interview data with teachers and students recentres key actors that are often sidelined in official curriculum policy discourse. The book also introduces the concept of curricularisation to describe the process through which objects and discourses of curriculum are produced and reproduced. In doing so, the book presents a comprehensive discussion of the impossibilities and possibilities of Asia curriculum in the Australian context, providing an innovative longitudinal and integrated understanding of the status quo of Asia curriculum._x000D__x000D_Highlighting the urgent need to reinvigorate the re-emerging centrality of curriculum in recent education debates around policy, teacher standards, assessmentand learning outcomes, this book is an important reference for education policy experts and academics in the fields of curriculum studies, teacher education and studies of Asia._x000D_ _x000D_ List of tables _x000D_ _x000D_ About the authors _x000D_ _x000D_ Series editor's note _x000D_ _x000D_ Acknowledgements _x000D_ _x000D_ List of acronyms and abbreviations _x000D_ _x000D_ Foreword _x000D_ _x000D_ Introduction _x000D_ _x000D_ 1 The Asia curriculum entanglement _x000D_ _x000D_ 2 Tracing the emergence of Asia as a curriculum discourse _x000D_ _x000D_ 3 Curricularising Asia education policy _x000D_ _x000D_ 4 The Asia curriculum paradox: Teachers and students reflect _x000D_ _x000D_ 5 The Asia cross-curriculum priority in review _x000D_ _x000D_ 6 Towards a re-curricularisation of Asia _x000D_ _x000D_ Afterword _x000D_ _x000D_ Index_x000D_