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Autor/in | White, Carmen M. |
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Titel | Affirmative action and education in Fiji: legitimation, contestation and colonial discourse |
Quelle | In: Harvard educational review, 71 (2001) 2, S. 240-268Infoseite zur Zeitschrift |
Beigaben | Literaturangaben 57 |
Sprache | englisch; englische Zusammenfassung |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0017-8055 |
Schlagwörter | Bildungsniveau; Bildungspolitik; Förderungsmaßnahme; Schüler; Schülerleistung; Geschichte (Histor); Kolonialismus; Internationaler Vergleich; Leistung; Ethnische Gruppe; Benachteiligtes Kind; Fidschi; USA |
Abstract | In this article, the author analyzes the debate about affirmative action policies in education in Fiji and explores the impact of colonial discourses on the debates. She asserts that, much like the United States, affirmative action policies in Fiji have been intended to correct past injustices to minority and underprivileged groups. She shows how proponents of affirmative action use a colonial discourse that undercuts the power of their arguments and yet paradoxically fails to acknowledge the historical roots of the lower educational attainment of the Fijian population. In considering similarities of debate on this issue between the United States and Fiji, the author offers an additional perspective from which to understand the affirmative action debate. ( DIPF/orig.) |
Erfasst von | DIPF | Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main |
Update | 2002_(CD) |