Identity in Education [[electronic resource] /] / by S. Sánchez-Casal

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781156003321
• Autore: Sánchez-Casal S
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009
• ISBN: 0-230-62156-2; 9786612532382; 1-282-53238-3
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2009.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Collana: Future of Minority Studies
• Altri autori (Persone): Sánchez-CasalSusan; MacdonaldAmie A
• Disciplina: 378.1/982900973; 378.1982900973
• Soggetti: International education ; Comparative education; Educational sociology; Higher education; Educational sociology ; Education and sociology; Astronomy; Astrophysics; Philosophy and social sciences; International and Comparative Education; Sociology of Education; Higher Education; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology; Philosophy of Education
• 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 at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Identity, realist pedagogy, and racial democracy in higher education / Susan Sánchez-Casal and Amie A. Macdonald -- What's identity got to do with it? Mobilizing identities in the multicultural classroom / Paula ; M. L. Moya -- Fostering cross-racial mentoring : White faculty and African American students at Harvard College / Richard J. Reddick -- Which America is ours? Marti's "Truth" and the foundations of "American literature" / Michael Hames-Garcia -- Mis-education of mixed race / Michele Elam -- Ethnic studies requirements and the predominantly white classroom / Kay Yandell -- Historicizing difference in The English patient : teaching Kip alongside his sources / Paulo Lemos Horta -- Teaching disclosure : overcoming the invisibility of whiteness in the American Indian studies classroom / Sean Kicummah Teuton -- Religious identities and Communities of meaning in the realist classroom / William S. Wilkerson -- Postethnic America? A multicultural training camp for Americanists and future EFL teachers / Barbara Buchenau ... [et. al.] -- Uses of error : toward a realist methodology of student evaluation / John J. Su.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.