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Neriko Doerr - Meaningful Inconsistencies - 9781845456092 - V9781845456092
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Meaningful Inconsistencies

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Description for Meaningful Inconsistencies Hardback. 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. Series: Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 map, 24 tables. BIC Classification: 1MBN; JHB; JNFR; JNLC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.

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 neoliberal 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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845456092
SKU
V9781845456092
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About Neriko Doerr
Neriko Musha Doerr earned a PhD in anthropology from Cornell University. Her publications have appeared in a number of journals. She currently teaches cultural anthropology at Brookdale Community College, New Jersey.

Reviews for Meaningful Inconsistencies
“The translation of a Ph.D. thesis into a book is not always a successful enterprise. But it succeeds here. It is a welcome addition to a literature which explores the transformation of New Zealand in the late twentieth century from a colonial nation-state to a bicultural society, even if it is flawed or incomplete in certain regards. What this book ... Read more

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