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ERIC Number: EJ769454
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Aug
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0742-051X
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Telling and Retelling about Self and "Others": How Pre-Service Teachers (Re)interpret Privilege and Disadvantage in One College Classroom
Mueller, Jennifer; O'Connor, Carla
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, v23 n6 p840-856 Aug 2007
This paper examines how a group of mostly white, (upper) middle class pre-service teachers expressed resistance in one multicultural education course. We analyze how these students re-evaluated their educational autobiographies upon comparing their educational "story" with that of an "other" of a different race and social class whom they had interviewed. Findings reveal that despite variation in students' incoming ideological dispositions, they all rationalized inequality by clinging to moral evaluations of their own achievements and that of others like and unlike them. Teacher-educators have wrangled insufficiently with the moral logic that rationalizes unearned privilege, accounting, in part, for the kinds of resistance these students demonstrated.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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