Title Early childhood in postcolonial Australia : children's contested identities / by Prasanna Srinivasan

Published New York, NY ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Series Critical cultural studies of childhood Critical cultural studies of childhood. Contents Introduction: Who am I? Who is my Ganga? -- Ganga : Our beginnings, our context, our stories -- Boundaries speak : othering, Othering, øthering Australian/not Australian -- Complex(ion) speak : I am white, I am Australian; Pookey is Black, she is not Australian -- Forbidden Fs speak : You know what Australians think if you say you are a Muslim -- Tongue ties speak : I am Australian, I speak Australian -- Terra strikes speak : We can't let everyone in, this is our country, shouldn't we have a choice -- The "whiteness truth" : We have to do something -- Epilogue: But remember she is saying, "I don't like brown skin, I am white" -- Appendix -- Ganga's key : "boundary speakers." Summary "Early Childhood in Postcolonial Australia" explores how cultural identities are contested in postcolonial spaces by subjects of nation, color and culture in early childhood settings. The book uses participatory action research methodology to gather how language was used in early childhood settings to "speak" of the interaction between the cultural groups of "self" and "other" in Australia. Ganga, the largest river in India is used as a metaphor by the author to guide the narrators and the narratives through multiple theories to surface their subjective attachments to such identities. By doing so, it provides a dialogic form of discourse analysis for researchers and early childhood educators, who want to critically inquire how cultural identities are contested by the "Power" of "whiteness" ideology in postcolonial countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK and USA Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Srinivasan, Prasanna -- Childhood and youth SUBJECT Srinivasan, Prasanna fast Subject Children of minorities -- Australia -- Social conditions Children of minorities -- Australia -- Language East Indians -- Australia -- Social conditions Ethnicity -- Australia -- Psychological aspects Human skin color -- Social aspects -- Australia English language -- Social aspects -- Australia Early childhood education -- Social aspects -- Australia Postcolonialism -- Australia Age groups: children -- Australia. Multicultural education -- Australia. Pre-school & kindergarten -- Australia. Sociology -- Australia. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Children of minorities -- Language Children of minorities -- Social conditions Early childhood education -- Social aspects East Indians -- Social conditions English language -- Social aspects Ethnicity -- Psychological aspects Human skin color -- Social aspects Postcolonialism Race relations Society. SUBJECT Australia -- Race relations Subject Australia Genre/Form collective biographies. History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137440358 113744035X

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