ERIC Number: EJ1106506
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 15
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Structuring Contexts: Pathways toward Un-Obstructing Race-Consciousness
Berchini, Christina
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), v29 n8 p1030-1044 2016
This research is situated in second-wave White Teacher Identity studies and investigates the ways context structures a high school English teacher's white identity, practices, and race-consciousness. Working with detailed data and vignettes from a single case study, the author highlights the teaching of a unit on the Holocaust. Using the required Holocaust curriculum as a unit of analysis, the author illustrates how the teacher is structured to minimize and dismiss broader discussions of institutionalized and systemic oppression and violence, and particularly those contributions offered by a student of color in her classroom. The author argues that understanding the role contexts play in obstructing race-consciousness can help fill interpretive gaps between race-conciousness and what, on the surface, might appear to be a teacher's race-evasiveness.
Descriptors: Context Effect, Consciousness Raising, Race, Secondary School Teachers, English Teachers, Whites, Racial Identification, Educational Practices, Vignettes, Case Studies, Death, Teaching Experience, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Qualitative Research, Observation, Interviews, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Teacher Education Curriculum
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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