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Through White Noise

Part of the Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education Book Series (volume 87)

Editors: Syed, Khalida Tanvir

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-6209-040-8

Publisher: SensePublishers - Springer Journals

Jan 1, 2012

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Prologue: White Noise

Syed, Khalida Tanvir

Pages: 1 –6

[I am sitting on a Pakistani International Airlines flight. I am thinking, imagining the Canadian landscape and the Canadian multicultural mosaic as I move towards Heathrow Airport and my connecting flight for Toronto. This is the first time that I am going to Canada, but through the media I know...
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Entering White Noise

Syed, Khalida Tanvir

Pages: 7 –19

[In this chapter, I am introducing my personal and pedagogical background to the readers of this book. A prologue provides a context, or a timeline around which the inward and outward, backward and forward narrative journey of the author. The reader whose first language is not English may find...
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Unveiling White Privilege

Syed, Khalida Tanvir

Pages: 21 –50

[As Jon and I sat in his office, he began our first conversation by talking about his childhood experiences. He said: I grew up in England in the 1950s and 1960s, in a working-class family with a mother, a father, an elder brother and elder sister. My father was 55 when I was born in 1949. That...
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Unveiling Marginalization

Syed, Khalida Tanvir

Pages: 51 –74

[As Reena and I sat in her house, we began our first conversation, talking about her childhood experiences. She said: We were a nuclear family, my father and mother, me, and my younger sister. My mother, a traditional housewife, earned a BA in 1934, and my father was a medical doctor. My mother...
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Academic Noisen

Syed, Khalida Tanvir

Pages: 75 –88

[This section contains academic understandings of culture, multiculturalism, multiculturalism in education, multiculturalism in teacher education and lastly, anti-racist, multicultural education for a just society. I have reviewed the writing of international scholars from countries such as...
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Beyond White Noise

Syed, Khalida Tanvir

Pages: 89 –103

[I began this book with the question: “What are the personal and pedagogical experiences of two Canadian teacher educators who endeavour to engage with the complexities of teaching anti-racist, multicultural education in their graduate courses?” As I reflected on this question, on the field texts...
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Significance of the Work

Syed, Khalida Tanvir

Pages: 105 –107

[Although there are limits to the adaptation of multicultural policies, UNESCO is stressing the value of multiculturalism at several policy levels, including educational, linguistic, economic, social and institutional, as well as at regional, national and international levels. “Multiculturalism...

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