Constructing National Identity in Canadian and Australian Classrooms

The Crown of Education

Stephen Jackson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:15th Jan '19

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Constructing National Identity in Canadian and Australian Classrooms cover

This book explores the evolution of Canadian and Australian national identities in the era of decolonization by evaluating educational policies in Ontario, Canada, and Victoria, Australia. Drawing on sources such as textbooks and curricula, the book argues that Britishness, a sense of imperial citizenship connecting white Anglo-Saxons across the British Empire, continued to be a crucial marker of national identity in both Australia and Canada until the late 1960s and early 1970s, when educators in Ontario and Victoria abandoned Britishness in favor of multiculturalism. Chapters explore how textbooks portrayed imperialism, the close relationship between religious education and Britishness, and efforts to end assimilationist Anglocentrism and promote equality in education. The book contributes to British World scholarship by demonstrating how decolonization precipitated a massive search for identity in Ontario and Victoria that continues to challenge educators and policy-makers today.

ISBN: 9783030077617

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 454g

282 pages

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018