Agency in Constrained Academic Contexts - Explorations of Space in Educational Anthropology

Agency in Constrained Academic Contexts: Explorations of Space in Educational Anthropology examines how social agents construct autonomous spaces in the context of neoliberal education. The contributors to this edited collection consider the ways that educators, students, and families assert agency, claim space, and thereby reshape the constraints imposed by the durability of the academic institutions of which they are a part.

List of contents

Introduction: Taking Up Space in Anthropology and Education
Chapter 1: "I Am Their Teacher": How a Latina Paraeducator 'Remakes the Rules' of School by Being There
Chapter 2: Teacher Identity in Heritage Language Spaces: Explorations of Embodied Sociospatial Understandings in Teacher-Student Relationships
Chapter 3: I'm Here Anyway: School Choice in Indian Country
Chapter 4: Enacting Identity in the Constrained Academic Space of a Boarding School for Indigenous Students
Chapter 5: A Collaborative Exploration of Power, Access, and Resource Distribution in Higher Education
Chapter 6: I wanna Get Out of Here and Never Come Back': Lines of Flight in a Remedial Reading Classroom
Chapter 7: The Impact of Community within Teacher Professional Development Webinars

About the author

Edited by Aprille J. Phillips and Tricia Gray - Contributions by Jacob M. Barry; Christine Finnan; Tricia Gray; Manson N. Johnson; Bradley Levinson; Samantha Lopez; Jessica Masterson; Allison Mattheis and Jessica Mitchell-McCollough

Summary

Agency in Constrained Academic Contexts: Explorations of Space in Educational Anthropology examines social agency and the construction space in academic environments.

Product details

• Authors: Tricia Gray, Aprille J. Phillips, Aprille J. Gray Phillips
• Assisted by: Tricia Gray (Editor), Aprille J. Phillips (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781793646729
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-672-9
• No. of pages: 164
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); EDUCATION / General, Education, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & cultural anthropology, Ethnic groups & multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies