Identity in Education

2009. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-60917-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Future of Minority Studies

This volume explores the impact of social identity on teaching and learning. The contributors argue, from the perspective of diverse disciplinary and educational contexts, that mobilizing identities in the classroom is a necessary part of progressive educators' efforts to transform knowledge-making and to create a more just and democratic society.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sánchez-Casal, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction PART I: TRUTH, KNOWLEDGE, AND IDENTITY Identity, Realist Pedagogy, and Racial Democracy in Higher Education What's Identity Got to Do With It?: Mobilizing Identities in the Multicultural Classroom Negotiating Religious Identity in the Realist Classroom PART II: IDENTITY IN THE CURRICULUM Ethnic Studies Requirements and the 'White' Dominated Classroom Which America is Ours?: Marti's 'Truth' and the Foundations of 'American Literature' Race, Culture, and Globalizing the Curriculum: Reflections from the 'New South' PART III: REALIST PEDAGOGICAL STRATEGIES The Uses of Error: Toward a Realist Methodology of Student Evaluation Teaching The English Patient: The Politics of Identity and (Mis)Recognition Teaching Disclosure: Overcoming the Invisibility of Whiteness in the American Indian Studies Classroom PART IV: TEACHING REALISM The Working Classroom: Building Community Across Professional Boundaries Classroom Politics: Civic Subjects and Identity 'Keepin' It Real': Towards a Black Male Feminist Pedagogy

Über Autor(innen)

SUSAN SÁNCHEZ-CASAL is Editorial Manager at McGraw-Hill International, Madrid, Spain, and former Associate Professor of Latino and Women's Studies at Hamilton College. She is the author of multiple essays on Latino and Latino American literatures, and is the co-editor of Twenty-First Century Feminist Classrooms: Pedagogies of Identity and Difference (Palgrave/MacMillan 2002). Dr. Sánchez-Casal is the founding Director of the Hamilton College Inter-Cultural Women's Empowerment Group (ICWES). Se is a member of the Future of Minority Studies (FMS) Coordinating Team.

AMIE A. MACDONALD is Associate Professor of Philosophy at John Jay College of Criminal Justice/City University of New York. She is the co-author and co-editor of Twenty-First Century Feminist Classrooms: Pedagogies of Identity and Difference (Palgrave/MacMillan 2002). Professor Macdonald is a member of the Future of Minority Studies (FMS) Coordinating Team.