CAESL research area

Culture and identity in education

Concerned staff: Paul Black

My involvement in this area has largely developed through the various interests of my current and past postgraduate students. Below I'll briefly list some of the projects, talks and publications that relate to this general area in any way. The following listing is largely chronological, from more recent to earlier.

 
Masumi Nakahara: Becoming an intercultural teacher of Japanese in Australia (current Doctor of Teaching research).

• Nakahara, Masumi 2005, Does LOTE education contribute to crossing cultures?, talk presented at the Crossing Cultures Conference, Darwin, 12-13 November.

• Nakahara, Masumi & Paul Black 2005, How do overseas teachers survive the Australian LOTE classroom?, talk presented at the conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Melbourne, 25-28 September.
  

Steve Etherington: Kunwinjku pedagogy (current PhD research).

Jacqueline Widin: The internationalisation of education: Project implementation and stakeholder interests (PhD thesis completed in 2005; includes a chapter on 'Cultural practice: the project habitus').

Li Wang: Teaching Chinese culture to adult learners in Australia (Doctor of Teaching thesis completed in 2002).

Zane Goebel: Communicative competence in Indonesian: Language choice in inter-ethnic interactions in Semarang (PhD thesis completed in 2000).

• Black, Paul & Zane Goebel 2004, ‘Multivarietal language teaching’, Jimmon Shakai Kagaku Kenkyuu / Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (Waseda University, Tokyo), no. 44, pp. 93-102.
• Black, Paul & Goebel, Zane 2004, ‘Nobody's a native speaker of everything: Teaching dialectical variety and code choice’, Kajian Sastra: Jurnal Bidang Kebahasaan, Kesusastraan dan Kebudayaan [Kajian Sastra: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture], vol. 28, no. 1 (January 2004), pp. 1-12.
• Goebel, Zane & Paul Black. 2003, ‘Language variation in Indonesia: A learner-centred multimedia exploration of the functions of Indonesian vis-à-vis regional languages’, in Sudaryono (ed.), Sang Motivator yang Sejati: Kumpulan Karangan Persembahan untuk Professor Drs. Sudjati [A True and Consistent Motivator: Essays in Honour of Professor Drs. Sudjati], ed. Sudaryono, Fakultas Sastra, Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, Indonesia, pp. 212-31.
• Black, Paul & Zane Goebel 2002, ‘Multiliteracies and the Teaching of Indonesian’, Babel vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 22-6, 38.
• Black, Paul & Zane Goebel 2001, ‘A student-centered multimedia exploration of code choice in Indonesia’, in Jim White (ed.), FLEAT IV: The Fourth Conference on Foreign Language Education and Technology July 28 to August 1, 2000: Proceedings, Japan Association for Language Education and Technology, n.p.: pp. 633-8.
• Goebel, Zane & Paul Black 2001, ‘Teaching language variety’, in Asia-Pacific Applied Linguistics: The Next 25 Years, eds Andrew Lian, Debbie Dolan & Melanie Legg, Australian Linguistic Society, Canberra, electronic document available from <http:// www. slie. canberra. edu. au/ ALAA/ ALAA_Published/ home. html>.