School and Cultural Assimilation: Dimensions of Assimilation Politics in Education
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2022
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Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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Abstract
In this paper a crucial issue is being discussed which emerges in the context
of progressing diversity of the schooling environment, as well the whole public sphere in
general, i.e. cultural assimilation. This problem is to be addressed analytically through the
means of pedagogical, socio- cultural and geopolitical discourse which prevails today in
many Western countries and local debates on the nature of contemporary societies. Thus,
we may look at the relation between schools and assimilation processes in its complexity
and reveal how individuals objectified in those processes experience various assimilation
policies. The politics of assimilation is however closely related to particular forms
of shaping and understanding of the category of cultural difference. That link is being
investigated in many of its manifestations. This paper takes also the aim to reconstruct the
most significant tendencies in the politics of multiculturalism and to highlight the role of
pedagogical and educational reflexivity in that regard. The necessity of an interdisciplinary
approach is here taken as an important factor not just in the debate on contemporary
state and philosophy of diversity, but furthermore – a specific signum temporis of modern
educational studies.
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diversity, multiculturalism, cultural assimilation, school, assimilation politics
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Drozdowicz J., School and Cultural Assimilation: Dimensions of Assimilation Politics in Education. W: In Search of Academic Excellence Social Sciences and Humanities in Focus (Vol. I). Frankfurt: Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2022, pp. 161-179.
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978-3-631-86477-7