A Study of Bangladesh's Secondary School Curriculum Textbooks in Students' National Identity Construction in an Overseas Context

Autor/inn/en	Qazi, M. Habib; Shah, Saeeda
Titel	A Study of Bangladesh's Secondary School Curriculum Textbooks in Students' National Identity Construction in an Overseas Context
Quelle	In: Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 39 (2019) 4, S.501-516 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0218-8791
DOI	10.1080/02188791.2019.1671806
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Secondary Education; Secondary School Curriculum; National Curriculum; Textbooks; Textbook Content; Nationalism; Secondary School Students; Student Attitudes; Secondary School Teachers; Teacher Attitudes; Study Abroad; Identification (Psychology); Politics of Education; Power Structure; Language Usage; Grade 8; Grade 9; Grade 10; Immigrants; Land Settlement; War; Bangladesh; United Arab Emirates + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sekundarbereich; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Lehrbuchtext; Nationalismus; Sekundarschüler; Schülerverhalten; Lehrerverhalten; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Sprachgebrauch; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Siedlungsraum; Krieg; Bangladesch; Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
Abstract	This paper problematizes the interplay between curriculum textbooks and national identity constructions. Drawing on data from Bangladesh's school-textbooks, and students' and teachers' perspectives, the study identifies factors shaping Bangladesh's national identity in the textbook discourses and discusses students' experiences of these in an overseas school. Conceptualizing national identity construction as a discursive social practice, the study is informed by the postcolonial theoretical framework and Foucauldian Discourse Analysis. Findings suggest that the sampled textbooks project Bangla Language Movement of 1952 and Bangladesh's Liberation War with Pakistan as Bangladesh's defining national identity markers. This constitutes Pakistan as Bangladesh's external "Other" and criminalizes those who did not support the Liberation War, establishing them as Bangladesh's internal "Other". Participating students' strong identification with the nationalist discourses signals intense hostility towards Pakistan which has implications in the given overseas context. Their acrimony towards home-based internal "Other", and significantly weak identification with other textbook-projected national signifiers i.e., secularism/liberalism, religious/ethnic diversity and female representation has implications for Bangladesh's national social cohesion, gender relations and multiculturalism. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01