ERIC Number: ED591617
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Publication Date: 2017-Apr-27
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Mediating Teacher Positionality: Intersectional Understandings of Who We Are
Aronson, Brittany Alexis; Enright, Esther Alice; Amatullah, Tasneem
AERA Online Paper Repository, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Antonio, TX, Apr 27-May 1, 2017)
This paper explores the narratives educators in a graduate level critical multicultural education course reveal related to their own positionality. The term "positionality" acknowledges a person's intersectionality and how we are all raced, classed, gendered and that these identities are contextual, relational, and fluid. Critical educators recognize that we all have multiple positionalities (i.e. multiple factors that contribute to our overall identity), that reflect our unique worldview and biographical experiences, which in turn affect how teachers practice instruction. This makes understanding ourselves and others complex because of how, teachers and students negotiate, contest, and mediate their identities in and through the process of schooling.
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Graduate Study, College Faculty, Teacher Role, Professional Identity, Identification (Psychology), World Views, Teacher Characteristics, Power Structure, Social Justice
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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