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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453851503321

Autore

Fasching-Varner Kenneth J. <1979->

Titolo

Working through whiteness : examining white racial identity and profession with pre-service teachers / / Kenneth Fasching-Varner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

0-7391-7687-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Disciplina

370.71/1

Soggetti

Student teachers - United States

Teachers, White - Training of - United States

White people - Race identity - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-143) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Racial identity & pre-service teachers -- Mapping the terrain -- Semantic moves relative to race -- Naïveté in rationales for being teachers -- White racial identity -- Implications and future directions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book critically examines nine pre-service teacher candidates and the author's experience to explore the ways in which white educators manifest understandings of white racial identity and professional choice through oral narratives. Ultimately the text proposes a new, non-developmental model for thinking about white racial identity, while aiming to help teacher educators and teachers to work against the privileges of whiteness so as to better engage students in culturally relevant ways.