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From Migrant To Citizen:
Education Kit
What is 'From Migrant to Citizen'?
Citizenship testing was introduced in Australia
in 2007 and has continued to be a matter of debate. Countries in Europe and North America have designed and administered citizenship tests for over a decade. Macquarie University is undertaking a research project which draws together academic expertise in Law, European Languages and Cultures, Linguistics, History, Politics and Philosophy to analyse:
• The impact of citizenship testing internation ally
• Linguistic, historical, and cultural factors in citizenship testing
• Legal issues
• Philosophical and political debates about the changing concepts of citizenship in globalised societies
‘From Migrant to Citizen: Testing Language, Testing Culture’ is both the title of a conference and of a book to be published in 2009 by Palgrave
Macmillan.
Both the conference and the book are a reaction to the Australian government’s approach
to the testing of immigrants applying for citizenship, beginning with the discussion paper: ‘Australian Citizenship: Much More Than a Ceremony’(September, 2006), through the introduction
of a formal Australian Citizenship Test in 2007 to the release of the Australian Citizenship Test Review Committee report, on 22 November 2008: ‘Moving Forward…Improving Pathways to Citizenship’.
We aim to set these initiatives in their historical, legal, international and philosophical contexts, drawing together the varied discourses on citizenship.
How to use this kit
The education kit has been tailored to meet the syllabus requirements of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. PDF versions of the kits and source cards are available to download. The IUEU Centre from each of these states will be forwarded a hardcopy version of this education kit and the appropriate templates should they need to have further hardcopies printed or distributed.
Tracy Sullivan
Director, Australian History Museum
Phone: (+61 2) 9850 8870
Email: tracy.sullivan@mq.edu.au
Tracy Sullivan has been a History teacher in NSW schools for the last seven years. She has been awarded a 2009 Churchill Fellowship and a 2004 Premiers Westfield Modern History Scholarship and is an active member of the History teaching community as Vice President of the History Teachers Association of NSW, Lecturer in History Method at the University of New South Wales and a member of the Executive Committee of the History Council of NSW.
Tracy is an experienced School Certificate marker and HSC marker and former NSW coordinator of the National History Challenge. Tracy has worked for the Board of Studies as a consultant on syllabus formulation and implementation and has conducted professional development workshops on behalf of the Geography Teachers Association of NSW, History Teachers Association of NSW and the Department of Veteran's Affairs.
Education Kits - click on the state to view the kit for that particular state
Source Cards - links to the source card images and text
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