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Teacher Identity and the Struggle for Recognition
Meeting the Challenges of a Diverse Society
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2014
Summary
Teacher identity is shaped by recognition or its absence, often by misrecognition of others. Recognition as a teacher, or the strong and complex identification with one’s professional culture and community, is necessary for a positive sense of self. Increasingly, teachers are entering educational settings where difference connotes not equal, better/worse, or having more/less power over resources. Differences between discourses of identity are braided at many points with a discourse of racism, both interpersonal and structural.
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. Importantly, the authors illuminate many of the often problematic structures of schooling and the cultural politics that work to define one’s identity – drawing into specific relief the nature of the struggle for recognition that all face who choose to entering teaching as a profession.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-60709-574-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-60709-576-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
270
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access
1 The Metamorphosis of Teacher Identity: An Intersection of Ethnic Consciousness, Self-Conceptualization, and Belief Systems No access
2 Guardian of the Status Quo or Agent of Change? An Exploration of the Role of Identity in the School No access
3 Teacher Identity and Intersubjective Experience No access
4 Tensions in Teachers’ Identities as Educators for Social Justice No access
5 The Hazards of Engaging Teacher Identity in a Preservice Middle Level Program No access
6 New Teachers as Cultural Workers: Cultivating a Wide-Awake Consciousness of Identity No access
7 Becoming a Teacher: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Motivation and Teacher Identity Formation No access
8 An Exchange Between Black and White Teacher Educators: Healing, Teaching, Perils and Possibilities No access
9 Identity in Cultural Perspective: How It Matters to Teachers and Teaching No access
10 The Irony of Women Teachers’ Beliefs About Gender No access
11 From As If to What If: Interrogating Power, Agency, Space, and Self in the Feminized Position of Teacher No access
12 Personal, Professional, and Political Identities of Lesbian Teachers No access
13 Content Area Teachers, Writing, and Identity: The Great Void No access
14 Using Literature-Based Strategies with New Teachers to Complicate What They Know About Identity No access
15 Gaining Ideological Clarity: Constructing Positions on Race and Class in Teacher Preparation No access
16 The Challenge to Care: Personal Reflections of a Black Woman Teacher Educator’s Struggle to Establish Legitimacy in the College Classroom No access
17 Developing a Contextualized Teacher Identity: Embracing the Culture of the Borderlands No access
18 Enseñanza de la Otro: Engaging Mexican-Origin Students as an African American Outsider No access
19 Bilingual Preservice Teachers’ Conocimientos: Shifting and Evolving Consciousness No access
20 Learning Our Identity as Teacher: A Palimpsest Writ Large in Life No access
21 Coda: Needed—A Pedagogy of Identity in Teacher Preparation No access
About the Editor and Contributing Authors No access Pages 261 - 270
