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    “I don’t care about Asia”: teaching Asia in Australia

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    Authors
    Leong, Susan
    Woods, D.
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Leong, S. and Woods, D. 2017. “I don’t care about Asia”: teaching Asia in Australia. Journal of Australian Studies. 41 (3): pp. 367-379.
    Source Title
    Journal of Australian Studies
    DOI
    10.1080/14443058.2017.1343251
    ISSN
    1444-3058
    School
    Department of Internet Studies
    Remarks

    This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Australian Studies on 14/07/2017 available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/ 10.1080/14443058.2017.1343251

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50041
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Past the critiques of static contexts and hermetic conceptualisations of sociocultural communities, this paper argues that an important part of the work that remains to be done in Asian Australian studies is at the other frontline part of academia – teaching. In a world of contrarily increasing mobility and cultural apathy, how do we ‘sell’ the relevance of ‘Asia’ to students without resorting to the discourses of Asia as ‘the exotic other’ and/or as a market. In what ways can ‘Asia literacy’ be interpreted for a student body whose identities are becoming both more complex and syncretic? We suggest that university teachers are uniquely positioned to equip students with an understanding of Asia that is more processual than factual and more attitudinal than learnt. Drawing on the experience of teaching over a decade in Perth and Brisbane, we reflect on how the task has changed over the years, what the typical obstacles/barriers faced are and what students understand Asia literacy to mean in the midst of the current political and media discourses surrounding Asia today. Finally, we reflect on how our own experiences of such teaching emerges from our own sense of being and belonging as Australians of Asian origins.

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