Research update
Halse’s edited volume, Asia Literate Schooling in the Asian Century, analyses concepts, policies and practices of Asia literacy in school education. The contributors address these issues from a variety of perspectives, such as Asia literacy as experiential learning, the Asia literacy narrative, professional standards and ethics, and the feasibility of implementing cross-curricular studies of Asia.
The journal article Australia’s “Asian Century”: Time, Space and Public Culture explores the conception of Australia’s relationship with Asia, concluding that Australia is commonly regarded as being ‘in but not of Asia’, while Asia is seen as being ‘in but not of Australia’. To build Australia’s engagement with Asia, the authors advocate focusing on Australia’s constitutive connections with the region and people’s every-day (inter)cultural experiences.
Policy update
The Community Language Schools network in NSW will receive an additional $400,000 in funding, which will increase the total annual funding for community languages in NSW to over $6 million. The extra funding is part of the NSW Government's Communities United Through Language reforms. The network teaches 32,000 students in more than 50 different languages across 250 organisations. More updates
