ERIC Number: EJ874370
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Jan
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-0826-4805
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The Interpretation of Dreams: Ladson-Billings, Freud, and Derrida
Greenwalt, Kyle
Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, v41 n1 p61-80 Jan 2010
This study provides a critical and close reading of "The Dreamkeepers" (1994), by Gloria Ladson-Billings. The paper focuses primarily on the gendered nature of "being a teacher" and "being a student" as revealed in the dreamkeeper text, while maintaining its engagement with race and culture as it is manifested in the United States context. It considers the remarkable double-voicedness of the dreamkeeper text through a Derridean understanding of dreams, memory, perception, and writing. The study concludes by inviting teachers and teacher educators to reflect upon their personal teaching images via continual engagement with the social codes that structure pedagogical relationships.
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Teacher Educators, Teacher Role, Student Role, Gender Issues, Race, Cultural Context, Educational Environment, Critical Theory, Teaching Conditions, Cognitive Processes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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