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Subject(s)

• Postmodernism and education [Browse]

Related name

• López Bonilla, Ma. Guadalupe (María Guadalupe) [Browse]
• Englander, Karen [Browse]

Series

• Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) [More in this series]
• Counterpoints, studies in the postmodern theory of education

Summary note

• Discourses and Identities in Contexts of Educational Change presents the work of fourteen scholars concerning the United States and Mexico. The authors explore current and changing educational contexts through the relationship between discourses and identities. These are contexts in which the participants must negotiate multiple, and sometimes conflicting, positions. The empirical studies reported here are grounded in contemporary theories of sociolinguistics and literacy practices, social relations conceptualized in dynamics of power, and identity representations. The book uniquely contributes to the challenges facing different educational communities in specific contexts by using discourse and identity as the conceptual tools to analyze the problematic and often unclear relationship among diverse educational actors immersed in contexts of change at the local, national, and global levels.
• "The chapters in this book collectively address an interesting range of educational change proposals and implementations, from global to local levels, and with varying points of impact within the overall educational enterprise. ... Across this span we are presented with diverse and interesting perspectives on, and insights into, ways in which social orderliness and hierarchy are constituted and refined within everyday processes of people being recognized as being particular kinds of persons within particular contexts. ... This book could be read in many ways. My way reads it as a text that moves between forms of social research that speaks to questions of meaning, action, and social order, on the one hand, and forms of educational inquiry undertaken with a view to contributing toward promoting better quality learning and more equitable academic achievement, on the other. In the final analysis, the book prompts difficult questions about the relationship between how formal learning is socially ordered and the ideal of enhancing learning on an equitable basis ... [It] is a timely reminder that in the game of educational change the odds are stacked heavily in favour of established order, structure, and hierarchy. ..." --Colin Lankshear, from the Introduction --Book Jacket.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• 1. Introduction / Guadalupe López-Bonilla and Karen Englander
• Section 1. Educational practices and identities.
• 2. Going the distance : the challenges of traversing cultural and geographical space between home and school / Hugh Mehan, Nadia Khalil, and J. César Morales
• 3. Developing disciplinary discourses and identities : what's knowledge got to do with it? / Elizabeth Birr Moje
• 4. "Teamwork" : conflicting cultural models of gender, class, school, and family among high school students / Guadalupe López-Bonilla
• Section 2. Literacy, youth cultures, and virtual spaces.
• 5. Reading, language development, video games, and learning in the twenty-first century / James Paul Gee
• 6. Between physical and virtual spaces : the literacy practices of high school students / Carmen Pérez-Fragoso
• Section 3. Educational policies and professional identities.
• 7. Identities in shifting educational policy contexts : the consequences of moving from two languages, one community, to English only / Judith Green and Ana Inés Heras
• 8. Power, identity, and discourse in the institutionalization of basic education in Mexico / Alma Carrasco and Rollin Kent
• 9. The globalized world of English scientific publishing : an analytical proposal that situates a multilingual scholar / Karen Englander
• 10. Bicultural or intercultural? The official discourse and its appropriation by indigenous teachers in Mexico / Guadalupe Tinajero-Villavicencio.

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ISBN

• 143310928X (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781433109287
• 1433109298 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781433109294

OCLC

465867944

RCP

H - S

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