Identifying Race and Transforming Whiteness in the Classroom

Identifying Race and Transforming Whiteness in the Classroom
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Publisher : Peter Lang
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 0820470686
ISBN-13 : 9780820470689
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Book Synopsis Identifying Race and Transforming Whiteness in the Classroom by : Virginia Lea

Download or read book Identifying Race and Transforming Whiteness in the Classroom written by Virginia Lea and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As educators, how do we challenge and interrupt the social construction of whiteness in ourselves, in the classroom, in schools, and in the wider society? Coming from diverse backgrounds, the contributors in this volume draw on their own well-examined experiences of race, racism, and whiteness in developing effective antiracist pedagogies and classroom activities that interrupt and contest whiteness. They have explored their own lives from the selective position of their own memories and have traced the ways in which their assumptions - which they use to mediate and interpret the world around them - have been constituted by public ideological forces. They have collaborated with others in building alternative pedagogies and support systems, enabling them to teach, and at the same time, reflect on the assumptions behind and the effects of their teaching. The result is the work collected here.


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