Children s literature enables young readers to acculturate to socially desirable forms of knowledge, values and ideologies. An increasing number of children s books with Aboriginal themes and motifs, written by Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers in the post-Mabo era, seek to rewrite Aboriginal history through realistic or imaginative modes of expression and, as a counter-discursive agency, they open a path to inculcate young minds with Aboriginal culture and knowledge in a postcolonial context. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu s concept of cultural capital, Indigenous Cultural Capital:...
Children s literature enables young readers to acculturate to socially desirable forms of knowledge, values and ideologies. An increasing number of...
This interdisciplinary book investigates emerging ideas regarding human-animal interaction and cohabitation in Australia in the twenty-first century. Advocates, activist groups, mainstream media and more are considered in this study, which aims to imagine better models for human-animal communal living in Australia.
This interdisciplinary book investigates emerging ideas regarding human-animal interaction and cohabitation in Australia in the twenty-first century. ...