Jessica Walton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Walton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Walton |
| SIGNATURE | WALTON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3876-2994 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 195 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Time, emotions and moral judgements: How university students position GenAI within their study
The emergence of Generative AI (GenAI) in higher education has prompted considerable discussion within the research community. Despite their centrality, students’ perspectives remain underexplored. We investigated how students position GenAI in relation to their studies, conducting focus groups with 79 students across four Australian universities. Taking a sociotechnical stance and employing reflexive thematic analysis, we identified three primar…
Beyond risk: Reducing the gap between diaspora youth digital citizenship needs and school curricula
Young people’s digital citizenship education has often been approached from a risk perspective with less attention given to how young people use digital technologies to positively engage with social issues and citizenship practices. Diaspora youth are further stigmatised, being defined as ‘at-risk’ of greater harm from digital environments, which frames them as victims or non-agentic. This article draws on qualitative research with diaspora youth…
Racism Data in Australia: A Review of Quantitative Studies and Directions for Future Research
There are growing public discussions about racism in Australia with renewed government commitment to addressing it. Robust evidence and high-quality data are important for informing anti-racism. However, current data have serious limitations that impact our knowledge about the nature, prevalence and impact of racism in Australia. To examine the state and limitations of data on racism in Australia, we conducted a stocktake review of quantitative r…
A review of the model minority myth: Understanding the social, educational and health impacts
As shown by the recent increase in anti-Asian racism and violence worldwide, the label of “model minority” is flawed and fails to capture the breadth and depth of the experiences of Asian people. Our paper is the first to provide a scoping review of empirical research (ninety-seven studies) that examine the social, educational and health and wellbeing impacts of the model minority myth (MMM) for people of Asian descent in white-majority countries…
Touching through the screen: Embodied learning through on-line intercultural exchanges among primary school children
This paper is based on ethnographic research of Australian and South Korean primary school students’ experiences of on-line synchronous intercultural exchanges as part of a school partnership. Starting with an embodied understanding of learning, I discuss the applicability of body pedagogies to the on-line context in a classroom setting by analysing how the institutional dimension (‘situated epistemic relations’) informed how the children were ta…
Asian Australian Identities: Embodiments and Inhabitations
Theories of embodiment recognise the critical politics of emplacement associated with the body, as well as its situatednesses in, and as, sites of performance. What happens when such locations shift due to crossings in terms of bloodlines, caste, class, family, gender, nation, race, region, religion, ability and sexuality, among others? How do embodiments that cross perimetres of categories inhabit their place and being, both in the Bourdieusian …
Affective Citizenship and Peripheral Intimacies: Children's Inter-ethnic Relations in South Korean Schools
This paper examines how issues of citizenship and belonging within an emergent "multicultural" South Korea are articulated through inter-ethnic relations among elementary school children. Based on ethnographic data and drawing on theories of affective citizenship and intimacy, I argue that affective dimensions of citizenship provide insight into everyday dynamics of exclusion and inclusion, through which citizenship, especially a sense of belongi…
Introduction: Everyday multiculturalism in/across Asia
This article introduces the special issue, Everyday Multiculturalism in/across Asia. It provides an overview of the international and inter-disciplinary research papers included in the special issue which all speak to the concept of everyday multiculturalism by critically engaging with the extent to which core aspects relate to different contexts in and across Asia. Papers in this collection encompass research undertaken in Australia, Hong Kong, …
"The limits of "multiculturalism without diversity: Multi-ethnic students and the negotiation of "difference" in South Korean schools
Since 2006, although South Korean "multiculturalism" policies have attempted to grapple with increasing ethnic and cultural diversity within Korean society, a homogenous national imaginary continues to inform these policies. I refer to the government's approach to multiculturalism as "multiculturalism without diversity" to describe the limits of a multiculturalism anchored within an ethnic nationalistic framing of "difference". Based on findings …
‘Korea … it's not really actually an Asian country’: Australian children's experiences of an intercultural school partnership programme
In Australia, intercultural understanding has been prioritised in education and curriculum documents at both federal and state levels. Alongside this educational priority, schools have also been encouraged to demonstrate ‘engagement’ with ‘Asia’, such as through a partnership with another school in the Asia-Pacific region. My research findings are based on an ethnographic study of Year 5 and 6 Australian children's experiences of an intercultural…
Ethnography and multicultural/intercultural education: Uncovering the unforseen complexities, practices and unintended outcomes
Ethnography and multicultural/intercultural education: uncovering the unforseen complexities, practices and unintended outcomes
The Politics of Conditional Citizenship in South Korea: An Analysis of the Print Media
This article shows how the meaning of citizenship has changed in South Korea since the partial emergence of a multicultural society in the past two decades. It does so by analysing how newspaper editorials have discussed multiculturalism, which is a multifaceted concept but one which weighs heavily on notions of citizenship. There is often a consensus about citizenship in mono-ethnic and homogeneous societies, even if it is not always clearly art…
Whiteness and national identity: Teacher discourses in Australian primary schools
The study examines how white teachers talked to children about national identity and cultural diversity by drawing on qualitative research with eight- to 12-year-old students and their teachers from four Australian primary schools with different racial, ethnic and cultural demographics. Despite a range of explicit and implicit approaches that fostered different levels of critique among students, teachers often communicated Australian national ide…
Contemporary South Korean society: A critical perspective
Contemporary South Korean society: a critical perspective." Asian Studies Review, 40(3), pp. 463–464
Towards reflexive ethnicity: Museums as sites of intercultural encounter
In a highly globalised world with increasing ethno‐nationalistic tensions and conflicts, the importance of intercultural education has never been greater. The challenge remains, however, as to whether educating for mutual respect and social cohesion can be achieved through traditional modes of schooling or whether additional approaches that are not necessarily school‐centric are required. Drawing on in‐depth qualitative data including video diari…
Encountering the 'Other: Interpreting Student Experiences of a Multi-Sensory Museum Exhibition
The Immigration Museum Melbourne, Australia, launched the Identity: Yours, Mine, Ours exhibition in 2011. Aimed primarily at secondary school students, this long-term installation seeks to foster reflection on identity and belonging, as well as dialogue about racism, through an interactive, immersive museum experience. This paper describes a multi-method research project, which included narrative interviews, focus groups and video diaries with 47…
Feeling It: Understanding Korean Adoptees' Experiences of Embodied Identity
This paper examines the ways in which transnational Korean adoptees experience identity as an embodied subjective process that is simultaneously contested and objectified by social perceptions of their bodies in their adoptive countries and South Korea. To analyse these lived experiences, I draw primarily on embodiment theories such as Budgeon's [(2003). Identity as an embodied event. Body and society, 9, 35–55] sociological concept of ‘body as e…
You are not born being racist, are you?’ Discussing racism with primary aged-children
n\t\t\t\t\tEthnic-racial socialisation is broadly described as processes by which both minority and majority children and young people learn about and negotiate racial, ethnic and cultural diversity. This paper extends the existing ethnic-racial socialisation literature in three significant ways: it (1) explores ways children make sense of racial and ethnic diversity in relation to their experiences of racial and ethnic diversity and racism; (2) …
Fostering intercultural understanding through secondary school experiences of cultural immersion
In parallel with many nations’ education policies, national education policies in Australia seek to foster students’ intercultural understanding. Due to Australia’s location in the Asia-Pacific region, the Australian government has focused on students becoming “Asia literate” to support Australia’s economic and cultural engagement with Asian countries. Drawing on Allport’s optimal contact principles and key factors supporting intercultural unders…
Talking culture? Egalitarianism, color-blindness and racism in Australian elementary schools
Understanding the complexities of ethnic-racial socialization processes for both minority and majority groups: A 30-year systematic review
Identifying and developing effective approaches to foster intercultural understanding in schools
This paper provides a systematic review of education literature focused on identifying school-based approaches for developing students’ intercultural understanding. Studies were assessed using selection criteria and then critically appraised for study quality. A key finding from the review is that developing students’ intercultural understanding beyond cultural awareness requires students and teachers to take a critical approach toward cultural d…
Adopted territory: Transnational Korean adoptees and the politics of belonging
Supporting the Interests of Intercountry Adoptees beyond Childhood: Access to Adoption Information and Identity
Drawing on select examples of adoption policy, this article considers key assumptions in discourse about ‘the best interests of the child’. The central argument is that the life-long impact of adoption needs to be recognised so that the long-term interests of adoptees are met, and not only when they are children. Based on doctoral research into the experiences of adult Korean adoptees in the United States and Australia, this article argues that c…
Changing Stigmatizing Perceptions and Recollections About Mental Illness: The Effects of Nami’s In Our Own Voice
Understanding the complexities of ethnic-racial socialization processes for both minority and majority groups: A 30-year systematic review
Talking culture? Egalitarianism, color-blindness and racism in Australian elementary schools
Identifying and developing effective approaches to foster intercultural understanding in schools
This paper provides a systematic review of education literature focused on identifying school-based approaches for developing students’ intercultural understanding. Studies were assessed using selection criteria and then critically appraised for study quality. A key finding from the review is that developing students’ intercultural understanding beyond cultural awareness requires students and teachers to take a critical approach toward cultural d…
What Lessons do Coming Out as Gay Men or Lesbians have for People Stigmatized by Mental Illness
The Politics of Conditional Citizenship in South Korea: An Analysis of the Print Media
This article shows how the meaning of citizenship has changed in South Korea since the partial emergence of a multicultural society in the past two decades. It does so by analysing how newspaper editorials have discussed multiculturalism, which is a multifaceted concept but one which weighs heavily on notions of citizenship. There is often a consensus about citizenship in mono-ethnic and homogeneous societies, even if it is not always clearly art…
Whiteness and national identity: Teacher discourses in Australian primary schools
The study examines how white teachers talked to children about national identity and cultural diversity by drawing on qualitative research with eight- to 12-year-old students and their teachers from four Australian primary schools with different racial, ethnic and cultural demographics. Despite a range of explicit and implicit approaches that fostered different levels of critique among students, teachers often communicated Australian national ide…
"The limits of "multiculturalism without diversity: Multi-ethnic students and the negotiation of "difference" in South Korean schools
Since 2006, although South Korean "multiculturalism" policies have attempted to grapple with increasing ethnic and cultural diversity within Korean society, a homogenous national imaginary continues to inform these policies. I refer to the government's approach to multiculturalism as "multiculturalism without diversity" to describe the limits of a multiculturalism anchored within an ethnic nationalistic framing of "difference". Based on findings …
You are not born being racist, are you?’ Discussing racism with primary aged-children
n\t\t\t\t\tEthnic-racial socialisation is broadly described as processes by which both minority and majority children and young people learn about and negotiate racial, ethnic and cultural diversity. This paper extends the existing ethnic-racial socialisation literature in three significant ways: it (1) explores ways children make sense of racial and ethnic diversity in relation to their experiences of racial and ethnic diversity and racism; (2) …
Contemporary South Korean society: A critical perspective
Contemporary South Korean society: a critical perspective." Asian Studies Review, 40(3), pp. 463–464
Encountering the 'Other: Interpreting Student Experiences of a Multi-Sensory Museum Exhibition
The Immigration Museum Melbourne, Australia, launched the Identity: Yours, Mine, Ours exhibition in 2011. Aimed primarily at secondary school students, this long-term installation seeks to foster reflection on identity and belonging, as well as dialogue about racism, through an interactive, immersive museum experience. This paper describes a multi-method research project, which included narrative interviews, focus groups and video diaries with 47…
Supporting the Interests of Intercountry Adoptees beyond Childhood: Access to Adoption Information and Identity
Drawing on select examples of adoption policy, this article considers key assumptions in discourse about ‘the best interests of the child’. The central argument is that the life-long impact of adoption needs to be recognised so that the long-term interests of adoptees are met, and not only when they are children. Based on doctoral research into the experiences of adult Korean adoptees in the United States and Australia, this article argues that c…
Introduction: Everyday multiculturalism in/across Asia
This article introduces the special issue, Everyday Multiculturalism in/across Asia. It provides an overview of the international and inter-disciplinary research papers included in the special issue which all speak to the concept of everyday multiculturalism by critically engaging with the extent to which core aspects relate to different contexts in and across Asia. Papers in this collection encompass research undertaken in Australia, Hong Kong, …
Fostering intercultural understanding through secondary school experiences of cultural immersion
In parallel with many nations’ education policies, national education policies in Australia seek to foster students’ intercultural understanding. Due to Australia’s location in the Asia-Pacific region, the Australian government has focused on students becoming “Asia literate” to support Australia’s economic and cultural engagement with Asian countries. Drawing on Allport’s optimal contact principles and key factors supporting intercultural unders…
Feeling It: Understanding Korean Adoptees' Experiences of Embodied Identity
This paper examines the ways in which transnational Korean adoptees experience identity as an embodied subjective process that is simultaneously contested and objectified by social perceptions of their bodies in their adoptive countries and South Korea. To analyse these lived experiences, I draw primarily on embodiment theories such as Budgeon's [(2003). Identity as an embodied event. Body and society, 9, 35–55] sociological concept of ‘body as e…
Touching through the screen: Embodied learning through on-line intercultural exchanges among primary school children
This paper is based on ethnographic research of Australian and South Korean primary school students’ experiences of on-line synchronous intercultural exchanges as part of a school partnership. Starting with an embodied understanding of learning, I discuss the applicability of body pedagogies to the on-line context in a classroom setting by analysing how the institutional dimension (‘situated epistemic relations’) informed how the children were ta…
Asian Australian Identities: Embodiments and Inhabitations
Theories of embodiment recognise the critical politics of emplacement associated with the body, as well as its situatednesses in, and as, sites of performance. What happens when such locations shift due to crossings in terms of bloodlines, caste, class, family, gender, nation, race, region, religion, ability and sexuality, among others? How do embodiments that cross perimetres of categories inhabit their place and being, both in the Bourdieusian …
Ethnography and multicultural/intercultural education: Uncovering the unforseen complexities, practices and unintended outcomes
Ethnography and multicultural/intercultural education: uncovering the unforseen complexities, practices and unintended outcomes
Towards reflexive ethnicity: Museums as sites of intercultural encounter
In a highly globalised world with increasing ethno‐nationalistic tensions and conflicts, the importance of intercultural education has never been greater. The challenge remains, however, as to whether educating for mutual respect and social cohesion can be achieved through traditional modes of schooling or whether additional approaches that are not necessarily school‐centric are required. Drawing on in‐depth qualitative data including video diari…
Changing Stigmatizing Perceptions and Recollections About Mental Illness: The Effects of Nami’s In Our Own Voice
What Lessons do Coming Out as Gay Men or Lesbians have for People Stigmatized by Mental Illness
Changing Stigmatizing Perceptions and Recollections About Mental Illness: The Effects of Nami’s In Our Own Voice
Supporting the Interests of Intercountry Adoptees beyond Childhood: Access to Adoption Information and Identity
Drawing on select examples of adoption policy, this article considers key assumptions in discourse about ‘the best interests of the child’. The central argument is that the life-long impact of adoption needs to be recognised so that the long-term interests of adoptees are met, and not only when they are children. Based on doctoral research into the experiences of adult Korean adoptees in the United States and Australia, this article argues that c…
Identifying and developing effective approaches to foster intercultural understanding in schools
This paper provides a systematic review of education literature focused on identifying school-based approaches for developing students’ intercultural understanding. Studies were assessed using selection criteria and then critically appraised for study quality. A key finding from the review is that developing students’ intercultural understanding beyond cultural awareness requires students and teachers to take a critical approach toward cultural d…
Adopted territory: Transnational Korean adoptees and the politics of belonging
You are not born being racist, are you?’ Discussing racism with primary aged-children
n\t\t\t\t\tEthnic-racial socialisation is broadly described as processes by which both minority and majority children and young people learn about and negotiate racial, ethnic and cultural diversity. This paper extends the existing ethnic-racial socialisation literature in three significant ways: it (1) explores ways children make sense of racial and ethnic diversity in relation to their experiences of racial and ethnic diversity and racism; (2) …
Fostering intercultural understanding through secondary school experiences of cultural immersion
In parallel with many nations’ education policies, national education policies in Australia seek to foster students’ intercultural understanding. Due to Australia’s location in the Asia-Pacific region, the Australian government has focused on students becoming “Asia literate” to support Australia’s economic and cultural engagement with Asian countries. Drawing on Allport’s optimal contact principles and key factors supporting intercultural unders…
Talking culture? Egalitarianism, color-blindness and racism in Australian elementary schools
Understanding the complexities of ethnic-racial socialization processes for both minority and majority groups: A 30-year systematic review
Encountering the 'Other: Interpreting Student Experiences of a Multi-Sensory Museum Exhibition
The Immigration Museum Melbourne, Australia, launched the Identity: Yours, Mine, Ours exhibition in 2011. Aimed primarily at secondary school students, this long-term installation seeks to foster reflection on identity and belonging, as well as dialogue about racism, through an interactive, immersive museum experience. This paper describes a multi-method research project, which included narrative interviews, focus groups and video diaries with 47…
Feeling It: Understanding Korean Adoptees' Experiences of Embodied Identity
This paper examines the ways in which transnational Korean adoptees experience identity as an embodied subjective process that is simultaneously contested and objectified by social perceptions of their bodies in their adoptive countries and South Korea. To analyse these lived experiences, I draw primarily on embodiment theories such as Budgeon's [(2003). Identity as an embodied event. Body and society, 9, 35–55] sociological concept of ‘body as e…
Whiteness and national identity: Teacher discourses in Australian primary schools
The study examines how white teachers talked to children about national identity and cultural diversity by drawing on qualitative research with eight- to 12-year-old students and their teachers from four Australian primary schools with different racial, ethnic and cultural demographics. Despite a range of explicit and implicit approaches that fostered different levels of critique among students, teachers often communicated Australian national ide…
Contemporary South Korean society: A critical perspective
Contemporary South Korean society: a critical perspective." Asian Studies Review, 40(3), pp. 463–464
Towards reflexive ethnicity: Museums as sites of intercultural encounter
In a highly globalised world with increasing ethno‐nationalistic tensions and conflicts, the importance of intercultural education has never been greater. The challenge remains, however, as to whether educating for mutual respect and social cohesion can be achieved through traditional modes of schooling or whether additional approaches that are not necessarily school‐centric are required. Drawing on in‐depth qualitative data including video diari…
‘Korea … it's not really actually an Asian country’: Australian children's experiences of an intercultural school partnership programme
In Australia, intercultural understanding has been prioritised in education and curriculum documents at both federal and state levels. Alongside this educational priority, schools have also been encouraged to demonstrate ‘engagement’ with ‘Asia’, such as through a partnership with another school in the Asia-Pacific region. My research findings are based on an ethnographic study of Year 5 and 6 Australian children's experiences of an intercultural…
Ethnography and multicultural/intercultural education: Uncovering the unforseen complexities, practices and unintended outcomes
Ethnography and multicultural/intercultural education: uncovering the unforseen complexities, practices and unintended outcomes
The Politics of Conditional Citizenship in South Korea: An Analysis of the Print Media
This article shows how the meaning of citizenship has changed in South Korea since the partial emergence of a multicultural society in the past two decades. It does so by analysing how newspaper editorials have discussed multiculturalism, which is a multifaceted concept but one which weighs heavily on notions of citizenship. There is often a consensus about citizenship in mono-ethnic and homogeneous societies, even if it is not always clearly art…
Asian Australian Identities: Embodiments and Inhabitations
Theories of embodiment recognise the critical politics of emplacement associated with the body, as well as its situatednesses in, and as, sites of performance. What happens when such locations shift due to crossings in terms of bloodlines, caste, class, family, gender, nation, race, region, religion, ability and sexuality, among others? How do embodiments that cross perimetres of categories inhabit their place and being, both in the Bourdieusian …
Affective Citizenship and Peripheral Intimacies: Children's Inter-ethnic Relations in South Korean Schools
This paper examines how issues of citizenship and belonging within an emergent "multicultural" South Korea are articulated through inter-ethnic relations among elementary school children. Based on ethnographic data and drawing on theories of affective citizenship and intimacy, I argue that affective dimensions of citizenship provide insight into everyday dynamics of exclusion and inclusion, through which citizenship, especially a sense of belongi…
Introduction: Everyday multiculturalism in/across Asia
This article introduces the special issue, Everyday Multiculturalism in/across Asia. It provides an overview of the international and inter-disciplinary research papers included in the special issue which all speak to the concept of everyday multiculturalism by critically engaging with the extent to which core aspects relate to different contexts in and across Asia. Papers in this collection encompass research undertaken in Australia, Hong Kong, …
"The limits of "multiculturalism without diversity: Multi-ethnic students and the negotiation of "difference" in South Korean schools
Since 2006, although South Korean "multiculturalism" policies have attempted to grapple with increasing ethnic and cultural diversity within Korean society, a homogenous national imaginary continues to inform these policies. I refer to the government's approach to multiculturalism as "multiculturalism without diversity" to describe the limits of a multiculturalism anchored within an ethnic nationalistic framing of "difference". Based on findings …
Touching through the screen: Embodied learning through on-line intercultural exchanges among primary school children
This paper is based on ethnographic research of Australian and South Korean primary school students’ experiences of on-line synchronous intercultural exchanges as part of a school partnership. Starting with an embodied understanding of learning, I discuss the applicability of body pedagogies to the on-line context in a classroom setting by analysing how the institutional dimension (‘situated epistemic relations’) informed how the children were ta…
A review of the model minority myth: Understanding the social, educational and health impacts
As shown by the recent increase in anti-Asian racism and violence worldwide, the label of “model minority” is flawed and fails to capture the breadth and depth of the experiences of Asian people. Our paper is the first to provide a scoping review of empirical research (ninety-seven studies) that examine the social, educational and health and wellbeing impacts of the model minority myth (MMM) for people of Asian descent in white-majority countries…
Racism Data in Australia: A Review of Quantitative Studies and Directions for Future Research
There are growing public discussions about racism in Australia with renewed government commitment to addressing it. Robust evidence and high-quality data are important for informing anti-racism. However, current data have serious limitations that impact our knowledge about the nature, prevalence and impact of racism in Australia. To examine the state and limitations of data on racism in Australia, we conducted a stocktake review of quantitative r…
Beyond risk: Reducing the gap between diaspora youth digital citizenship needs and school curricula
Young people’s digital citizenship education has often been approached from a risk perspective with less attention given to how young people use digital technologies to positively engage with social issues and citizenship practices. Diaspora youth are further stigmatised, being defined as ‘at-risk’ of greater harm from digital environments, which frames them as victims or non-agentic. This article draws on qualitative research with diaspora youth…
Sociology (23 works) · Gender Studies (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Pedagogy (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Anthropology (11 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (11 works) · Ethnic group (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Social science (8 works)