The struggle for identity in today's schools [electronic resource] : cultural recognition in a time of increasing diversity / edited by Patrick M. Jenlink and Faye Hicks Townes.
Jenlink, Patrick M.; Townes, Faye Hicks, 1952-
2009
LC1099.3 .S896 2009eb
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Title The struggle for identity in today's schools [electronic resource] : cultural recognition in a time of increasing diversity / edited by Patrick M. Jenlink and Faye Hicks Townes.
ISBN 9781607091080 (electronic bk.)
9781607091066
1607091062
9781607091073 (pbk.)
1607091070 (pbk.)
1607091089 (electronic bk.)
Imprint Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Education, c2009.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 218 p.)
Call Number LC1099.3 .S896 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 370.1170973
Summary The Struggle for Identity in Today's Schools examines cultural recognition and the struggle for identity in America's schools. In particular, the contributing authors focus on the recognition and misrecognition as antagonistic cultural forces that work to shape, and at times distort identity. What surfaces throughout the chapters are two lessons to be learned in relation to identity. The first lesson is that identities and the acts attributed to them are always forming and re-forming in relation tohistorically specific contexts, and these contexts are political in nature, i.e., defined by issues of diversity such as race, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, gender, and economics. The second lesson presented by the authors is that identity forms in and across intimate and social contexts, over long periods of time. The historical timing of identity formation cannot simply be dictated by discourse. The identities posited by any particular discourse become important and a part of everyday life based on the intersection of social histories and social actors. Importantly, the social-cultural use of identities leads to another way of conceptualizing histories, personhoods, cultures, and their distributions over social and political groups.
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Townes, Faye Hicks, 1952-
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Introduction: cultural identity and the struggle for recognition / Patrick M. Jenlink and Faye Hicks Townes
Affirming diversity, politics of recognition, and the cultural work of schools / Patrick M. Jenlink
Dialoguing toward a racialized identity: a necessary first step in a politics of recognition / Kris Sloan
Misrecognition compounded / Faye Hicks Townes
Recognition, identity politics and English language learners / Angela Crespo Cozart
Identity formation and recognition in Asian American students / Kimberley A. Woo
Curriculum and recognition / Raymond A. Horn
Extracurricular activities and student identity / Amanda M. Rudolph
Recognition, identity politics and the special needs student / Sandra Stewart
Athletes, recognition, and the formation of identity / Vincent E. Mumford
Parental involvement: low-socioeconomic status (SES) and ethnic minority parents' struggle for recognition and identity / Julia Ballenger
Reaching out to parents as partners in preparing students for postsecondary education / Betty Alford
Difficult conversations about cultural identity issues / Sandra Harris
Value-added community: recognition, induction-year teacher diversity, and the shaping of identity / John C. Leonard
Coda: recognition, difference, and the future of America's schools / Patrick M. Jenlink.

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