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Desired Division, Disavowed Division: An Analysis of the Labeling of the Bilingual Unit as Separatist in an Aotearoa/New Zealand School
Author(s) -
Doerr Neriko Musha
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.2004.35.2.233
Subject(s) - aotearoa , hegemony , harmony (color) , sociology , gender studies , pacific islanders , ethnic group , biculturalism , globalization , unit (ring theory) , anthropology , political science , law , linguistics , neuroscience of multilingualism , politics , psychology , art , philosophy , mathematics education , visual arts
In this article, I offer a new interpretation of non‐Mäori parents' claim that a Mäori/English bilingual school unit in Aotearoa/New Zealand is separatist. I show that while some use such a claim to defend monoculturalism and white hegemony, others use it to come to terms with Aotearoa/New Zealand's postcolonial nationhood, globalization, and a changing meaning of “ethnic harmony.” I suggest collaborations to rearticulate the latter parents' concerns, thereby creating new alliances to support minority education.