Problematizing Identity: Everyday Struggles in Language, Culture, and Education

by Angel M.Y. Lin

This book argues that identity as a term needs to be problematized, not taken for granted - for both the risks and the potential that the concept offers to educators for understanding issues of social inequality and how social inequality is being reproduced, and for exploring possible alternative ways educators can work with identity de/formation processes to seek to break the social reproduction structures mediated through identity fixing and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805853383
• ISBN13: 9780805853384
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"