Identity in Education - Paperback

by S. S疣chez-Casal (Author)

This volume explores the impact of social identity on teaching and learning. The contributors argue, from the perspective of diverse disciplinary and educational contexts, that mobilizing identities in the classroom is a necessary part of progressive educators' efforts to transform knowledge-making and to create a more just and democratic society.

Author Biography

SUSAN SﾁNCHEZ-CASAL is Editorial Manager at McGraw-Hill International, Madrid, Spain, and former Associate Professor of Latino and Women's Studies at Hamilton College. She is the author of multiple essays on Latino and Latino American literatures, and is the co-editor of Twenty-First Century Feminist Classrooms: Pedagogies of Identity and Difference (Palgrave/MacMillan 2002). Dr. S疣chez-Casal is the founding Director of the Hamilton College Inter-Cultural Women's Empowerment Group (ICWES). Se is a member of the Future of Minority Studies (FMS) Coordinating Team.