Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

Publication Title

Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education

Volume

45

Issue

5

Pages

469-486

Publisher Name

Taylor & Francis

Abstract

This qualitative study explores the possibilities of reframing multicultural teacher education in the context of critical cosmopolitanism. I examine the ways in which 34 pre-service and in-service teachers learn to teach diversity and multicultural issues in their curriculum. I use three sets of coursework materials, including course discussions, small group presentations, and midterm and final papers to investigate their conceptualisations of diversity and equity issues in education. I present two salient themes as they reframe to teach diversity by reviewing both local and global conflicts: (a) analysing the frame of recognition and (b) revisiting the notions of self-other and interrelationality. Butlerian theory of recognisability provides an important theoretical and pedagogical approach for exploring the conditions of recognition as liveable life, rather than focusing on what works best for increasing teachers’ cosmopolitan awareness. Teacher education programmes could benefit from critical cosmopolitanism when implementing a theoretical and pedagogical strategy for teaching diversity within a global context.

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Author Posting © Taylor and Francis, 2017. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Taylor and Francis for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, Volume 45, Issue 5, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2016.1245407

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