Working through whiteness : examining white racial identity and profession with pre-service teachers / Kenneth Fasching-Varner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fasching-Varner, Kenneth J., 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Student teachers--United States--Case studies.

Student teachers.

Teachers, White--Training of--United States--Case studies.

Teachers, White.

White people--Race identity--United States--Case studies.

White people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book critically examines nine pre-service teacher candidates and the author's experience to explore the ways in which white educators manifest understandings of white racial identity and professional choice through oral narratives. Ultimately the text proposes a new, non-developmental model for thinking about white racial identity, while aiming to help teacher educators and teachers to work against the privileges of whiteness so as to better engage students in culturally relevant ways.

Contents:

Introduction

Racial identity & pre-service teachers

Mapping the terrain

Semantic moves relative to race

Naïveté in rationales for being teachers

White racial identity

Implications and future directions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-143) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798765183526

0-7391-7687-0

OCLC:

879024361