The Asia Literacy Dilemma: A Curriculum Perspective

The Asia Literacy Dilemma provides an innovative approach to the global debates of Asia-related teaching and learning, focusing on 'Asia as a curriculum area' and its role and significance in twenty-first-century education. It problematizes the curriculum through a comprehensive discussion of policy, teacher practice, and student experiences, contextualizing it within contemporary national and transnational curriculum challenges. The book uses interview data with teachers and students to highlight key actors often sidelined in official curriculum policy discourse and introduces the concept of curricularization to describe the process of producing and reproducing curriculum objects and discourses. It offers a comprehensive discussion of the impossibilities and possibilities of Asia curriculum in the Australian context, providing an innovative longitudinal and integrated understanding of the status quo.

Format: Hardback
Length: 194 pages
Publication date: 21 October 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Asia literacy dilemma presents a fresh perspective on the enduring global discussions surrounding Asia-related teaching and learning. By centering on 'Asia as a curriculum area, the book offers insightful commentary on the rationale and viability of 'Asia literacy and its importance within and for twenty-first-century education.

The book's distinctive value lies in its comprehensive exploration of 'Asia as planned, enacted, and experienced curriculum, integrating policy, teacher practice, and student experiences to facilitate an extensive discussion. By contextualizing the problematics of Asia-related curriculum within contemporary national and transnational curriculum challenges, Cairns and Weinmann consider conflicting discourses of nation-building, ethnocentrism, transnationalism, geo-economics, and the purposes of twenty-first-century education. Their utilization of interview data with teachers and students brings forth key actors that are often marginalized in official curriculum policy discourse. Furthermore, the book introduces the concept of curricularization to describe the process through which objects and discourses of curriculum are produced and reproduced. By undertaking this, the book presents a comprehensive examination of the limitations and potentialities of Asia curriculum in the Australian context, offering an innovative longitudinal and integrated understanding of the current status quo of Asia curriculum.

Addressing the pressing requirement to revitalize the re-emerging centrality of curriculum in recent education debates encompassing policy, teacher standards, assessment, and learning outcomes, this book serves as a valuable resource for education policy experts and scholars in the domains of curriculum studies, teacher education, and studies of Asia.

Weight: 560g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367861155