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Publication details [#63070]
Zilliacus, Harriet, BethAnne Paulsrud and Gunilla Holm. 2017. Essentializing vs. non-essentializing students’ cultural identities: curricular discourses in Finland and Sweden. Journal of multicultural discourses 12 (2) : 166–180.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This paper explores how students’ cultural identities are discursively constructed in the Finnish and Swedish national curricula for the compulsory school. The goal is to elucidate the manifold discourses on cultural identity which prevail within Nordic educational policy. The inquiry uses a critical multicultural education and postcolonial viewpoint with a special focus on essentialist and non-essentialist views of identity in the curricular discourses.