Teacher identity and the struggle for recognition : meeting the challenges of a diverse society / / edited by Patrick M. Jenlink

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.1
• Soggetto topico: Teachers - Psychology; Identity (Psychology); Group identity - United States; Teaching - Psychological aspects - United States; Teaching - Social aspects - United States; Multicultural education - United States - Psychological aspects
• Persona (resp. second.): JenlinkPatrick M.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Part I: The Meaning of Identity-Understanding Teacher Identity in a Diverse Society; 1 The Metamorphosis of Teacher Identity: An Intersection of Ethnic Consciousness, Self-Conceptualization, and Belief Systems; 2 Guardian of the Status Quo or Agent of Change? An Exploration of the Role of Identity in the School; 3 Teacher Identity and Intersubjective Experience; 4 Tensions in Teachers' Identities as Educators for Social Justice; Part II: Pedagogical Considerations in Shaping Teacher Identity-Raising Identity Awareness ; 5 The Hazards of Engaging Teacher Identity in a Preservice Middle Level Program6 New Teachers as Cultural Workers: Cultivating a Wide-Awake Consciousness of Identity; 7 Becoming a Teacher: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Motivation and Teacher Identity Formation; 8 An Exchange Between Black and White Teacher Educators: Healing, Teaching, Perils and Possibilities; 9 Identity in Cultural Perspective: How It Matters to Teachers and Teaching; Part III: Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Teacher Identity-Embracing Politics and Professionalism; 10 The Irony of Women Teachers' Beliefs About Gender ; 11 From As If to What If: Interrogating Power, Agency, Space, and Self in the Feminized Position of Teacher12 Personal, Professional, and Political Identities of Lesbian Teachers; Part IV: Identity Formation-Writing and Reading Teacher Identity; 13 Content Area Teachers, Writing, and Identity: The Great Void; 14 Using Literature-Based Strategies with New Teachers to Complicate What They Know About Identity; 15 Gaining Ideological Clarity: Constructing Positions on Race and Class in Teacher Preparation; Part V: Contextualizing Teacher Identity-Situating the Teacher Self ; 16 The Challenge to Care: Personal Reflections of a Black Woman Teacher Educator's Struggle to Establish Legitimacy in the College Classroom17 Developing a Contextualized Teacher Identity: Embracing the Culture of the Borderlands; 18 Enseñanza de la Otro: Engaging Mexican-Origin Students as an African American Outsider; 19 Bilingual Preservice Teachers' Conocimientos: Shifting and Evolving Consciousness; Part VI: Being, Becoming a Teacher-Reflections on Teacher Identity; 20 Learning Our Identity as Teacher: A Palimpsest Writ Large in Life ; 21 Coda: Needed-A Pedagogy of Identity in Teacher PreparationAbout the Editor and Contributing Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: Teacher Identity and the Struggle for Recognition examines the nature of identity and recognition as social, cultural, and political constructs. In particular, the contributing authors to the book present discussions of the professional work necessary in teacher preparation programs concerned with preparing teachers for the complexities of teaching in schools that mirror an increasingly diverse society.
• Titolo autorizzato: Teacher identity and the struggle for recognition
• ISBN: 1-60709-576-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786551003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II