"District Nine" and Constructions of the Other: Implications for Heterogeneous Classrooms

Autor/in	Janks, Hilary
Titel	"District Nine" and Constructions of the Other: Implications for Heterogeneous Classrooms
Quelle	In: English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 10 (2011) 2, S.39-48 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1175-8708
Schlagwörter	Culturally Relevant Education; Social Distance; Stranger Reactions; Racial Segregation; Stereotypes; Films; Foreign Students; College Students; Student Experience; Foreign Countries; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fremdenprüfung; Rassentrennung; Klischee; Film; Collegestudent; Studienerfahrung; Ausland; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Culturally responsive research and pedagogy are a challenge in classrooms that are increasingly heterogeneous. I start from the premise that culture is dynamic not static, that difference is a resource for new ways of doing, thinking and believing, that identity is hybrid. The challenge for teachers is how to harness the productive potential of diverse classrooms for pedagogy. John Thompson (1990) argues that discourses of "unification" which construct an "us", and discourses of "fragmentation" which construct a "them", produce and maintain relations of power. Us/them discourse will be explored in the South African context in relation to both apartheid's racial othering and post-apartheid's xenophobic othering. The South African film, "District Nine", which can be interpreted as both forms of othering, is presented as a case for considering these ideas. (Contains 4 figures, 1 table, and 2 footnotes.) ["'District Nine' and Constructions of the Other: Implications for Heterogeneous Classrooms" was written with Roseline Adegoke.] (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Wilf Malcolm Institute for Educational Research, University of Waikato. PB 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand. Tel: +64-7-858-5171; Fax: +64-7-838-4712; e-mail: wmier@waikato.ac.nz; Web site: http://education.waikato.ac.nz/research/journal/index.php?id=1
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10