Relational citizenship: Examining Taiwanese membership development through immigrant framing in public discourses

This essay unpacks how new immigrants and citizenship are framed in public discourse in Taiwan. Since the 1980s, Taiwan has experienced significant demographic changes. As a postcolonial, neoliberal capitalist democracy, imbued with Confucianism and collective interests, Taiwan provides an intriguing case for study. Through analyzing discourses of new immigrants, relational citizenship emerged as a strategy to anchor and authenticate membership in Taiwan. This challenges discussions on belongingness beyond the language of law, economics, and humanitarianism, to address interactions that occur between citizens and im/migrants as interdependent and relational partners. Although the concept of relational citizenship is culturally specific, it may also be applied to other societies and contexts.     

当代中国文化的机遇与挑战

研究了在多元文化背景下如何认识中国民族文化的问题。分析了中国文化面临的困境,认为增强中国文化对外传播交流的能力,发掘文化资源,开发文化产业是弘扬中华民族文化精神,使中国民族文化不断发展的有效途径。     

On Canadian’s Multiculturalism in the Late 20th Century

In 1971 the government of Canada adopted the policy of multiculturalism. Since then Canada has become the first western country to announce and implement an official policy of multiculturalism. While i...     

Building cultural empathy and deconstructing Whiteness in counselor education

Counselor training that does not attend to dynamics of cultural differences and oppression can run the risk of promoting false empathy that serves the voyeuristic purpose of the counselor rather than achieving accurate empathy for the client. In this article, we discuss the differences between true and false empathy and how Whiteness, racial identity and culture, and classroom dynamics can impact the ability to engage in cultural empathy development. We present a model for cultural empathy training that attends to each of these dynamics.     

White Noise: The Attack on Political Correctness and the Struggle for the Western Canon

This paper provides a critical overview of the debate about political correctness and the status of the Western Canon in education. The paper analyses a number of critical themes in the debate: Who is it under attack? What is the Canon which is to be defended? Why does it need to be defended? And what notions of knowing and learning underlie the arguments of the proponents of the Canon? After outlining the ways in which the arguments of those attacking political correctness and defending the Canon are profoundly flawed, the paper suggests that the case for multiculturalism and diversified curriculum needs to be substantially strengthened if it is to present a viable alternative.     

‘Just Say No’: public dissent over sexuality education and the Canadian national imaginary

ABSTRACT

Scholars of sexuality have argued that ‘moral panics’ about sexuality often stand in for broader conflicts over nationality and belonging. Canada has spent decades cultivating a national image founded on multiculturalism and democratic equality. The Ontario sexuality education curriculum introduced in 2015 drew audible condemnation from a variety of groups. Drawing from Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Race Theory, we argue that the public discourse surrounding these protests exposed the limits of Canadian pluralism, fuelling a meta-debate about the ‘Canadianness’ of recent immigrants and the incompatibility of liberal values with those of non-Westerners, especially Muslims. We explain this in terms of contextual factors such as Ontario’s publicly funded Catholic school system and anti-Muslim xenophobia in the post-9/11 era. Our analysis speaks to the importance of intersectional social justice efforts as part of the movement for comprehensive sex education.     

Political correctness and the neoconservative reaction

Political correctness is a social vision that includes feminism, multiculturalism, gay liberation, and affirmative action. Liberal ideals are at the heart of this social vision — and this explains its success. But despite its liberal inspiration, political correctness has a tendency to betray its liberal instincts in favour of the newfangled assumptions of postmodernism — and this explains its failure.     

兰斯顿·休斯诗歌之后殖民主义解读

兰斯顿·休斯是20世纪美国文学史上一位重要的作家。在其创作的多部作品里,休斯探索了美国黑人文化在白人主流文化阴影笼罩之下民族文化的解放、复兴之路。这与倡导解构西方文化霸权、弘扬第三世界民族文化和主张多元文化主义的后殖民主义理论有着许多共通之处。休斯与后殖民主义理论都持有不同种族、不同文化不分强弱大小、平等交流、共存发展的多元主义思想。     

全球化与本土化视野下的比较教育研究范式之审视

在全球化与本土化的引力和张力的作用下，在后现代主义理论的影响下，比较教育的研究受到了前所未有的挑战，其主要反响之一便是比较教育研究范式上的深刘变化。在此背景下，与传统的实证主义研究方法不同的质性研究范式和多元文化主义研究范式便应运而生。文章重点对这两种范式的内涵、外延及特点进行简要评介，以期对这两种范式作深入的认识和探讨。