Race and Gender in the Classroom - Teachers, Privilege, and Enduring Social Inequalities

Race and Gender in the Classroom explores the paradoxes of education, race, and gender, as Laurie Cooper Stoll follows eighteen teachers carrying out their roles as educators in an era of "post-racial" and "post-gendered" politics.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Chapter 1: Constructing the Color- and Gender-Blind Classroom
Chapter 2: Race in the Color-Blind Classroom: Multiculturalism and Tracking
Chapter 3: What Problem? Gender in the Gender in the Gender-Blind Classroom
Chapter 4: Mapping the Ruling Relations
Chapter 5: The Countervailing Forces of Privilege
Chapter 6: Confronting Paradox
Appendix A: Initial Interview Instrument
Appendix B: Final Interview Instrument
References
Index

About the author

Laurie Cooper Stoll is assistant professor in the department of sociology and archaeology at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.

Summary

Race and Gender in the Classroom explores the paradoxes of education, race, and gender, as Laurie Cooper Stoll follows eighteen teachers carrying out their roles as educators in an era of “post-racial” and “post-gendered” politics.

Product details

• Authors: Laurie Cooper Stoll, Stoll Laurie Cooper
• Assisted by: Embrick David G. (Foreword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.03.2015
• EAN: 9781498515542
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1554-2
• No. of pages: 156
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Social discrimination & inequality, United States of America, USA, Philosophy & theory of education, Gender studies, gender groups, Philosophy and theory of education, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General