Neoliberal Influences on the Implementation of Intercultural Curriculum Initiatives: Teacher Interactions with the Australian Curriculum

Autor/in	Desmarchelier, Renee
Titel	Neoliberal Influences on the Implementation of Intercultural Curriculum Initiatives: Teacher Interactions with the Australian Curriculum
Quelle	In: Intercultural Education, 33 (2022) 5, S.485-508 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1467-5986
DOI	10.1080/14675986.2022.2070129
Schlagwörter	National Curriculum; Curriculum Implementation; Neoliberalism; Multicultural Education; Teaching Methods; Indigenous Populations; Pacific Islanders; Social Values; Personal Autonomy; Individualism; Science Instruction; Social Justice; History Instruction; Foreign Countries; Pedagogical Content Knowledge; Cultural Awareness; Participatory Research; Action Research; Secondary School Teachers; Science Teachers; Global Approach; Teacher Attitudes; Indigenous Knowledge; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Multikulturelle Erziehung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Sinti und Roma; Pacific Rim; Inhabitant; People; Pazifischer Raum; Bewohner; Sozialer Wert; Individuelle Autonomie; Individualismus; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht; Ausland; Pädagogische Kompetenz; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Forschungstätigkeit; Projektforschung; Science; Teacher; Teachers; Science teacher; Wissenschaft; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Globales Denken; Lehrerverhalten; Australien
Abstract	Curriculum initiatives with intercultural educative aims are not uncommon in many schools around the world. This paper argues that these initiatives and their classroom implementation by teachers is strongly impacted and influenced by the prevailing neoliberal context of schooling. The findings of a project working with teachers on implementing the Intercultural Understanding General Capability and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures Cross Curriculum Priority of the Australian Curriculum are used to demonstrate the specific ways in which neoliberalism has shaped and defined teachers' work. The neoliberal elements of consumption, individual responsibility, individuals being set adrift from values, surveillance and the illusion of autonomy are used to highlight teachers' approaches to understanding and implementing the curriculum elements in their science classrooms. Teachers in the study saw the potential for enacting social justice in terms of intercultural education in their classrooms but were often hampered in their efforts by prevailing neoliberal discourses influencing their own assumptions and actions, as well as those of the schools they worked in. It is only through interrogation of how neoliberalism impacts on intercultural educative aims that openings for counter-hegemonic activities can be identified. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01