英文摘要 |
Urban population is composed of people from diverse races, cultures, genders, classes, ages, nationalities, political groups, and religions. The multiple differences of identities between populations form a wide range of tangible and intangible borders. It is an essential mission for urban schools to design curriculum for equipping future citizens with critical and transformative competences to transfer, deconstruct, and reconstruct existing borders, to induce and facilitate the shift of borders, to liberate the repressing power relations derived from group differences, and to reconstruct a democratic public life with respect of multiple group differences. Hence, this article adopts Giroux's viewpoints of border pedagogy as theoretical basis to analyse the nature of urban post-graffiti culture, i.e. border crossing, deconstruction and reconstruction. It also attempts to illustrate how post-graffiti culture can be employed in urban education to devise alternative ways of reading and creating texts and history beyond present mainstream curriculum and instruction. |