This article analyses all articles published in Accounting History using a topic modeling technique. Previous studies focus on the content of accounting history, but not how the field has evolved. ...The article complements prior assessments of the research published in Accounting History by providing measures of the relative prevalence of research areas and their evolution over time. The analysis offers insights into accounting history by refining previous categorisations, uncovering overlooked topic areas and substantiating trends, such as the demise of interest in the technical core of accounting in favour of more variegated and fragmented approaches. The findings are discussed in light of the claimed pluralisation of methodological and theoretical approaches in this field.
Canadian multicultural picturebooks greatly influence both children's and educators' being and becoming. Identity is closely related to our engagement with literacy practices. In this article, two ...researchers who immigrated from mainland China engage in autobiographical narrative inquiry, a methodology that asks the researchers to self-face, and to "world"--travel to our earlier landscapes, times, places, experiences and relationships. In personal, educational and academic settings, we tell and retell our storied experiences of critically reading four multicultural Canadian picturebooks. Such experiences are analysed through the theoretical lenses of transnational identity, immigrant parent knowledge, mirrors and windows, and no single story. The experiences of reading, reviewing, teaching and researching Canadian multicultural picturebooks have been constructing, mediating, engaging, and exploring our own identities. The personal nature of autobiographical narrative inquiry allows a transformational understanding of the construct of such multiple, complex and ever-shifting identities. We hope to shed light on the importance of negotiating one's transcultural and transnational identity in multicultural picturebooks, as little work presents minority educators' and adult newcomers' voices of reading Canadian multicultural picturebooks. By making visible our critical reading experiences, this inquiry opens space to maximise the outcomes of utilising children's literature in teaching and learning.
Children's literature is potentially a starting point to present critical multicultural concepts to young learners. It may also be a medium through which historical and contemporary ideologies of ...society are encouraged in the young learners. This process may be viewed as a form of cultural hegemony when the choices of literature and reading materials for children are deliberately selective for content and themes. The study is based on a critical content and thematic analysis of 15 multicultural children's literature picturebooks. It aims to examine the social construction of culture, characters, and literary genres through the process of critical multicultural analysis. Code categories through content analysis of selected children's literature picturebooks were formed by both directed and conventional content analysis. These code categories include content with a social justice/equity issue, themes involving inclusivity, discovering new worlds/other cultures, language/ethnicity/religion diversity, and multidimensional characters from minority or marginalised groups. This process provides insight into counter-cultural hegemonic elements in many forms of multicultural literature. Implications are discussed in terms of culturally responsive practice and multicultural education. These multicultural and picturebook narratives provide windows to society, informing readers and learners about diverse cultural experiences.
This article is about Mario Conte the tailor and the world he has inhabited for almost fifty years. It is a specific account of postwar Australian immigration and the recollections and role of one ...person in the clothing and textile industry. Mario Conte arrived as a twenty year old in Australia in October 1954. He was part of the second wave of postwar immigrants who arrived between the years of 1950 to 1960 with the promise of sunshine all year round and a chance for decent wages. He arrived with the skills he had learnt as a thirteen year old from a tailoring apprenticeship with a local tailor. Mario's story is not that different from many other postwar Italian immigrants, except that he found work in his own trade and his business has survived in much the same form as when he started it in the mid 1960s. Elements of Mario's experience as a 'New Australian' can be found in the highly successful comic novel They're a Weird Mob. John O'Grady wrote the book under the pseudonym Nino Culotta, and a year after publication in 1957 it had sold over one hundred thousand copies.3 The book resonated with Australian audiences who recognised the difficult and sometimes humorous everyday experiences of Italian migrants as they made sense of different ways of being in a new culture.
While modernity aspired to 'fix' radical alienation through aesthetics by assigning an ethical value to narratives, contemporary literature and the arts are no longer immune to the impact of ...commodity culture amplified by globalization. In the world of commodity, corporate logic, and cyborgs, the very notion of identity is frequently turned into a spectacle. Yet, it is also simultaneously mobilized by the search for what Jean Baudrillard describes as the 'ecstatic' form that materializes aesthetics. This title investigates not only how these transformations affect gender, racial, and class relations, as well as how they impact the representation of historical events.
Although previous studies have underlined the importance of social interactions, multicultural education, prediction/imagination, and bilingual/bi-literacy learning, the intersection of all these ...four areas is yet to be explored. This qualitative case study explored how young bilingual readers create meanings and develop literary responses through prediction, imagination, and social interaction while reading multicultural literature. As part of a larger longitudinal study, this study focused on kindergarten-age Korean-English bilingual children at a Korean Language School in a Midwestern city in the United States. The data were collected over five months using audio/video recordings, open-ended interviews, and children's artifacts. The findings suggest that creative participation and social interactions using two languages help young bilingual readers to engage deeply with the reading and encourage multiple perspectives.
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