Identity and pedagogy in higher education : international comparisons / Kalwant Bhopal and Patrick Alan Danaher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bhopal, Kalwant, author.

Contributor:

Danaher, Patrick Alan, 1959- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in higher education--Australia.

Discrimination in higher education.

Discrimination in higher education--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kalwant Bhopal and Patrick Danaher examine 'race', identity and gender within education and explore the difficulties of relating these concepts to the experience of students in higher education. In drawing together the experience of local and international students in the UK and in Australia, they examine the ways identities are understood and conceptualized within higher education in local contexts and on a global level. They consider the complexity of 'race', gender and identity in relation to education within the context that education continues to be dominated by predominantly white, middle class values and perspectives. Identity and Pedagogy in Higher Education examines the extent to which education as a vehicle for change in the light of the controversial debates surrounding race and gender inequalities

Contents:

Key debates about identity, 'race', gender and culture

Theoretical understandings of identity

Identity and the context of higher education

Educational identities in the UK and Australia

Researching racialized identities

Student understandings of racialized identities

Conclusions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472553027

1472553020

9781299051607

129905160X

9781441150059

1441150056

OCLC:

828299166