Intercultural Understanding in the Australian Curriculum

Autor/inn/en	McCandless, Trevor; Fox, Brandi; Moss, Julianne; Chandir, Harsha
Titel	Intercultural Understanding in the Australian Curriculum
Quelle	In: Australian Educational Researcher, 47 (2020) 4, S.571-590 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (McCandless, Trevor) ORCID (Fox, Brandi) ORCID (Moss, Julianne) ORCID (Chandir, Harsha)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0311-6999
DOI	10.1007/s13384-019-00358-8
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Cultural Awareness; National Curriculum; Discourse Analysis; Theory of Mind; Interpersonal Competence; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Diskursanalyse; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Australien
Abstract	Intercultural Understanding and Personal and Social Capability are two General Capabilities in the Australian Curriculum. However, the level of engagement anticipated by students in addressing these general capabilities across the learning continua provided in the curriculum differs significantly both in terms of the cognitive level expected of this engagement (as measured by Bloom's Taxonomy), and of the level of interaction expected between students in meeting the capabilities' learning objectives. Using the work of Bernstein and Fairclough, this paper argues that the Intercultural Understanding general capability requires less intellectual and inter-social engagement than the Personal and Social capability due to underlying assumptions that operate so as to distance the cultural Other, placing them on the periphery of Australian society, despite cultural diversity being, in fact, the lived experience of virtually all Australians. The learning continua, once scrutinised through a linguistic analysis and the lens of Bernstein, point to the absences of deep engagement in Intercultural Understanding capability, particularly when compared with that expected for the Personal and Social capability and begs the question of how Intercultural Understanding can become imagined, sustained or respectful within pedagogical encounters across the Australian Curriculum. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01