Cultural complicities: elitism, heteronormativity and violence in the education marketplace
Cultural complicities: elitism, heteronormativity and violence in the education marketplace
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文化共存：教育市场中的精英主义、异性恋和暴力
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2007
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S. Saltmarsh
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S. Saltmarsh
近几十年来，澳大利亚的教育话语发生了巨大变化，因为新自由主义的选择政策有利于日益市场化的分层教育格局，见证了私营部门学校教育的蓬勃发展。在这种情况下，许多人认为私立学校提供的道德、社会和学术利益超出了公立学校学生的利益。然而，在私立学校话语中弥漫着卓越和问责制的争论中，最近涉及精英私立学校学生的高调暴力事件对这些主导话语提供了强有力的挑衅，并对与精英学校相关的一系列文化习俗提出了质疑。在本文中，作者借鉴了一项为期三年的研究，在澳大利亚悉尼的一所精英男校发生的性暴力事件及其在公共领域的代表性，以考虑如何在对话中传播精英主义，异性恋和暴力的话语。通过对学校和媒体生成的文本的分析，以及对学校前学生和家长的采访，我们认为教育市场是一个脱节和矛盾的地方，在学校，媒体和社会话语的复杂相互作用中，私立学校消费的特权同时得到维护和撤销。在此过程中，作者考虑了一系列文化和体制做法如何参与暴力的产生。
Educational discourse in Australia has been dramatically altered in recent decades as neoliberal choice policies favouring an increasingly marketized, tiered educational landscape have witnessed a burgeoning of private sector schooling. In this climate, many perceive private sector schooling as providing moral, social and academic benefits beyond those available to students in the public sector. Amid rhetorics of excellence and accountability that pervade discourses of private schooling, however, recent high‐profile incidents of violence involving students at elite private schools provide a powerful provocation to these dominant discourses, and call into question a range of cultural practices associated with elite schooling. In this paper, the author draws on data generated from a three‐year study of sexually violent incidents that took place at an elite boys’ school in Sydney, Australia and their representation in the public domain, to consider how discourses of elitism, heteronormativity and violence circulate in dialogue. Through analysis of school‐ and media‐generated texts, and interviews with a former student and parents of the school, it is argued that the education marketplace is a site of disjuncture and contradiction, in which the privileges of private school consumption are simultaneously upheld and revoked in a complex interplay of school, media and social discourse. In so doing, the author considers how a range of cultural and institutional practices are complicit in the production of violence.