Reproducing Inequalities in Teaching

Gender, Class and Ethnicity in Italian Education
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-75361-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 286 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Critical Diversities

The book analyses how lines of (non)belonging are traced and how notions of (non)belonging circulate around and are attached to students from immigrant backgrounds. Such circulations coalesce around values and practices linked to gendered, ethnic majority middle-class norms, through which difference is positioned and opposed in hierarchical terms.

This project analyses the relationship between teachers’ identities and their attitudes and pedagogic dispositions towards students from immigrant backgrounds, showing how these affect each other, contributing to their state of (non)belonging in the educational setting and in the wider society. Attention is brought to the pervasive and normalised background of neoliberal ideology, permeating the educational environment. In examining the (problematic) relationship between the previous elements, the book uncovers the intersectional reproduction of lines of belonging - and not belonging.

While the analysis is centred on a study in Italy, it is situated within and provides links to international connections, facilitating a wider and global understanding of issues related to social justice. The book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers across sociology, education, gender, and cultural studies. Due to the intersectional approach and the width of the issues explored, it will be of use to policymakers and practitioners.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pigliapoco, Stefania

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The context

2. Key theories and concepts

3. Teachers’ perceptions of social class

4. Teachers’ views on Gender

5. Constructing (non)belonging

6. Teachers’ understanding of neoliberal education policies and the shaping of power relations in the classroom

7. Linking teachers dispositions and pedagogies

Über Autor(innen)

Stefania Pigliapoco is Lecturer of Italian at the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Humanities, Department of General and Romance Linguistics. She has a wide experience as a foreign and additional language teacher in secondary schools in Italy in multicultural contexts. Her research interests are in the fields of cultural studies, gender studies, intersectionality, diversity and equality, and teacher education.