‘We are all Asian here’: multiculturalism, selective schooling and responses to Asian success
‘We are all Asian here’: multiculturalism, selective schooling and responses to Asian success
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“我们都是亚洲人”：多元文化主义、选择性教育以及对亚洲成功的回应
DOI：
10.1080/1369183x.2017.1315850
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Megan Watkins
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作者：
Megan Watkins
尽管澳大利亚似乎接受了所有“亚洲”的东西，比如在澳大利亚的国家课程中纳入了对亚洲的跨学科关注，并呼吁澳大利亚人成为“亚洲文化”（MCEETYA 2008），但许多澳大利亚人对亚洲怀有深深的怀疑。这一点在人们对澳大利亚学校中许多亚裔学生的优异表现的担忧中尤为明显。本文以最近有关多元文化主义的研究为背景，考察了澳大利亚一所名牌高中的学生、家长和老师如何看待“亚洲成功”现象。这些学校经常成为媒体关注的对象，因为越来越多的亚洲学生被视为取代了英澳背景的学生，学术调查通常侧重于他们在新自由主义择校议程中的作用。然而，关于这些学校内部关系的研究很少；亚裔背景的学生如何回应对亚裔成功的批评，以及占多数的盎格鲁人对他们最近的“少数民族”地位的反应。除了研究这一学校社区的不同成员如何应对这些不断变化的人口结构外，文章还考虑了对多元文化主义的理解如何构成这些辩论，以及“亚洲的成功”如何成为一种跨国现象。
ABSTRACT Despite what seems like the embrace of all things ‘Asian’ such as the inclusion of a cross-curricular focus on Asia in Australia’s National Curriculum and the call for Australians to become ‘Asia literate’ (MCEETYA 2008), many Australians harbour a deep suspicion of Asia. This is especially evident in the concern over the phenomenal performance of many students of Asian backgrounds in Australian schools. With recent research around multiculturalism as a backdrop, this article examines how students, parents and teachers in one Australian selective high school negotiate the phenomenon of ‘Asian success’. Such schools are very often the object of media attention with the increasing number of Asian students seen to be displacing those of Anglo-Australian background and academic enquiry generally focusing on their role within neoliberal agendas of school choice. Little research exists, however, on relations within these schools; how students of Asian backgrounds respond to criticisms of Asian success and the reactions of the Anglo majority to their more recent ‘minority’ status. Together with examining how various members of this one school community have responded to these changing demographics, the article considers how understandings of multiculturalism frame these debates and how ‘Asian success’ has become a transnational phenomenon.