- Title
- Student engagement with multiethnic literary texts
- Creator
- Amosa, Wendy
- Relation
- New Horizons in Education Vol. 113, p. 53-65
- Relation
- http://www.wef.org.au/newhorizons_tableofcontentslisting.htm#Volume%20113:%20November%202005
- Publisher
- World Education Fellowship (Australia)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2005
- Description
- While much international research has examined students' engagement with multiethnic literary texts, little attempt has been made to develop an understanding of the implications of such research for the Australian context. To meet this end, research was conducted to examine the responses of 308 Year 7 to Year 10 students to an anthology of Australian multicultural writing. Informed by the development of a theoretical framework through which the students' work was analysed, this research identified interesting trends regarding the ways that students from dominant and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds engage with ethnically diverse literary texts. Findings of the research challenged commonly held assumptions regarding student engagement with multiethnic literary texts, leading to important implications for pedagogical practice.
- Subject
- cultural identity; Department of Education and Training; quality teaching; student engagement; transformative education; multiethnic literary texts; secondary school students
- Identifier
- uon:2438
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/29178
- Identifier
- ISSN:0028-5382
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