Meaningful inconsistencies
Subtitle: bicultural nationhood, the free market, and schooling in Aotearoa/New Zealand
By: Neriko Musha Doerr.
Series: Studies in public and applied anthropology
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781845456092
Subjects: Maori (New Zealand people) -- Education (Secondary); Education, Secondary -- New Zealand -- Whangarei District ; Multicultural education -- New Zealand -- Whangarei District ; Bilingual education -- New Zealand -- Whangarei District ; High school students -- New Zealand -- Whangarei District 
Description: "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 neo-liberal 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."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.