Identity in Education [Paperback]

This volume explores the impact of social identity on teaching and learning. The contributors argue, from the perspective of diverse disciplinary and educational contexts, that mobilizing identities in the classroom is a necessary part of progressive educators' efforts to transform knowledge-making and to create a more just and democratic society.Introduction PART I: TRUTH, KNOWLEDGE, AND IDENTITY Identity, Realist Pedagogy, and Racial Democracy in Higher Education What's Identity Got to Do With It?: Mobilizing Identities in the Multicultural Classroom Negotiating Religious Identity in the Realist Classroom PART II: IDENTITY IN THE CURRICULUM Ethnic Studies Requirements and the 'White' Dominated Classroom Which America is Ours?: Marti's 'Truth' and the Foundations of 'American Literature' Race, Culture, and Globalizing the Curriculum: Reflections from the 'New South' PART III: REALIST PEDAGOGICAL STRATEGIES The Uses of Error: Toward a Realist Methodology of Student Evaluation Teaching The English Patient: The Politics of Identity and (Mis)Recognition Teaching Disclosure: Overcoming the Invisibility of Whiteness in the American Indian Studies Classroom PART IV: TEACHING REALISM The Working Classroom: Building Community Across Professional Boundaries Classroom Politics: Civic Subjects and Identity 'Keepin' It Real': Towards a Black Male Feminist Pedagogy

Debates in the sphere of higher education about multicultural education, diversity, and affirmative action have reached a fevered pitch . . .One could hardly imagine, then, a more opportune moment to pursue research on the importance of identity in education. This collection by S?nchez-Casal and Macdonaldis timely, broad in its design, and novel in its approach. - Tobin Siebers, V. L. Parrington Collegiate Professor, English Language and Literature,UniversityofMichigan

Identity in Education is a substantive, provocative contribution to the conversation of how to best democratize higher edulÃ