- Title
- Learning difference in the diaspora - sharing sacred spaces
- Creator
- Tsolidis, Georgina
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/68107
- Identifier
- vital:5019
- Identifier
- http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-94-007-1466-3_41.pdf
- Identifier
- ISBN:978-94-007-1466-3
- Abstract
- In the immediate post World War Two period, Australian nation building relied on immigration to enact industrialisation. The place in contemporary Australia, of those whose families came from southern Europe during this period is a gauge for the success of an immigration programme that contributed to enormous demographic shifts. The experiences of the Melbourne Greek community represent the place of cultural diversity in the Australian social imaginary. Public pedagogies of belonging and how these manifest through spaces that link with national representations are examined. The Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance is positioned as a sacred space. It is symbolic of Australian nationhood through its links with the ANZAC tradition. Processions to the Shrine occur regularly and young people, through their schools, participate. The Melbourne Greek community marches to the Shrine to mark Greece’s National Day. On these occasions, young people become the focus of commemorative activities, thus the Shrine becomes a sacred space for inducting students into various national narratives. Here the focus is on how such occasions engage with the social imaginary of Australianness and through it, diasporic students’ identification.
- Publisher
- Amsterdam Springer
- Relation
- International handbook of migration, minorities and education p. 641-657
- Rights
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1466-3_41
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Migration; Multiculturalism; Meaning
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