The Discursive Construction of ‘Multicultural Students’ and the Politics of Inclusion-Exclusion: Focusing on Governmental Policy Documents on Multicultural Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 85-110
Author(s):  
Soohan Lee ◽  
Kyunghee So
Keyword(s):  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Governmental Policy ◽  
Multicultural Students

scholarly journals ‘Embedded into the core’: The discursive construction of ‘policy’ in higher education learning and teaching documents and its recontextualisation in practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 478-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Horrod
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Policy Compliance ◽  
Teaching Excellence ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
The Core ◽  
Policy Ideas

With increasing competition and metrics focusing on teaching quality (e.g. the teaching excellence framework or TEF), there is a spotlight on learning and teaching (L&T) in policies and practices within universities. Bodies at national and institutional levels focus on disseminating policy ideas on L&T which are oriented to government priorities. This article focuses on how policy itself is discursively constructed in selected L&T policy documents and explores the means of the recontextualisation of policy discourses. I discuss the following three findings: (1) the construction of policy as ‘embedded within processes and practices’, (2) shifts in genre and discursive strategies as policy ideas become short guidelines and (3) the role of ‘discursive mechanisms’ in forcing engagement with policy ideas. Through an analysis of discursive strategies and recontextualisation, I demonstrate the seeming insecurity around policy compliance and show how constructions of L&T are never value-free.

scholarly journals Being Neighbourly: Urban Reserves, Treaty Settlement Lands, and the Discursive Construction of Municipal–First Nation Relations

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Barry
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Land Claims ◽  
Interpretive Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Indigenous Policy ◽  
Key Aspects

Ongoing land claims negotiations are creating areas of First Nation authority within and adjacent to many urban centres. Several government agencies and lobby groups have responded to these changes with discussion papers and toolkits, all implicitly or explicitly intended to help municipal and First Nation governments become better "neighbours." Using the theoretical and methodological insights found in critical discourse and interpretive policy analysis, this article examines the prevalence of this "neighbour-to-neighbour" discourse in municipal and other non-Indigenous policy, placing a particular focus on how it is used in land-use planning. I explore how these policy documents discursively construct and articulate a distinctly and deeply settler-colonial perspective on the desired relationship between First Nations and municipalities: one that has clear antecedents in liberal-economic notions of property, and that serves to conceal key aspects of Indigenous authority.

scholarly journals Pendidikan Multikultural Dalam Pembelajaran Agama Islam di Sekolah Menegah Atas Negeri (SMAN) 1 Kendawangan Kabupaten Ketapang

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Arief Sukino Sukino ◽  
Oktariansyah Oktariansyah ◽  
Erwin Erwin
Keyword(s):  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Attitude Change ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Multicultural Students ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Latent Potential

<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>Senior High School (SMA) is a strategic educational environment in shaping the personality of multicultural students. Through Islamic Religious Education the strategic role of the school is becoming increasingly apparent because Islamic Education that is carried out properly will bring a positive and productive attitude change. The purpose of this study is to investigate multicultural education in SMAN 1 Kendawangan, which is with a lot of diversity. The method used is descriptive qualitative with a phenomenological approach. The results of this study indicate that the <em>first</em> important argumentation of multicultural Islamic religious education in Islamic religious education is the factor, religious religions of ethics, cultural customs, and social status that are often the latent potential of social conflict. <em>Second</em> Multicultural education is carried out by internalizing in an integrated manner through contextualization and Extention of the material, the need for learning strategies, and attitude/behavior-based assessments. <em>Third</em> multicultural education is carried out by incidental (temporary) actions, namely by counseling during the flag ceremony, conducting Friday blessings (healthy and clean schools), and developing tolerance through the momentum of religious holidays in schools.</p><p>Keywords: <em>Multicultural, Islamic Religious Education, Kendawangan</em></p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstrak</strong></p><p>Sekolah menegah Atas SMA adalah lingkungan Pendidikan yang setrategis dalam pembentukan kepribadian siswa multikuturalis. Melalui Pendidikan Agama Islam peran strategis sekolah tersebut menjadi semakin nyata, karena Pendidikan Agama Islam yang dilaksanakan dengan baik akan membawa perubahan sikap positif dan produktif. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menginvestigasi Pendidikan multicultural di SMAN 1 Kendawangan, yang merupakan dengan banyak keragaman. Metode yang digunakan adalah deskriptif kualitatif dengan pendekatan fenomenologi. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa <em>pertama</em> argumentasi pentinga Pendidikan agama Islam multicultural dalam Pendidikan agama Islam adalah factor, keragama sgama etis, adat budaya dan status social yang sering menjadi potensi laten konflik social. <em>Kedua</em> Pendidikan mulitkultural dilakukan dengan menginternalisasikan secara terintegrasi melalui kontekstualisasi dan mepengangan materi, perluasa strategi pembelajaran dan penilaian berbasis sikap/perilaku. <em>Ketiga</em> pendidkan multikultur dilasakukan dengan tindakan insidental (temporary) yakni dengan penasihatan pada saat upacara bendera, melakukan jumat berkah (sekolah sehat dan bersih) dan pengembangan toleransi melalui momentum hari besar keagamaan di sekolah.</p><p>Kata kunci: Multikultural, Pendidikan Agama Islam, Kendawangan</p>

Steps towards effective teamworking in Community Mental Health Teams

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Twomey ◽  
M. Byrne ◽  
T. Leahy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Recovery Model ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Governmental Policy ◽  
Irish Context ◽  
Team Functioning ◽  
Over Time

ObjectivesThis paper aims to show how effective teamworking can be achieved in Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs), in the context of recovery-focused care.MethodsA narrative review of various governmental policy documents and selected papers relevant to teamworking and recovery-focused care within mental health services, in an Irish context.FindingsEffective teamworking within CMHTs is a prerequisite to the provision of quality, recovery-focused care. It requires the management of various environmental (e.g. adopting a ‘recovery’ model of mental health), structural (e.g. sharing of responsibilities and capabilities) and process (e.g. utilising a clear referral pathway) factors that influence teamworking, as CMHTs develop over time.ConclusionsCompletion by CMHT members of teamworking and other evaluative measures can assist teams in highlighting potential interventions that may improve recovery-focused team functioning and effectiveness.

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