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Passing and Pedagogy: THE DYNAMICS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Pamela L. Caughie
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Description for Passing and Pedagogy: THE DYNAMICS OF RESPONSIBILITY
paperback. Through a variety of texts - novels, memoirs, film, drama, theory, museum exhibits, legal cases - this title demonstrates the dynamics of passing, presenting it not as the assumption of a fraudulent identity but as the recognition that the assumption of any identity, including for the purposes of teaching, is a form of passing. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5 photographs. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 468.
The current academic milieu displays a deep ambivalence about the teaching of Western culture and traditional subject matter. This ambivalence, the product of a unique historical convergence of theory and diversity, opens up new opportunities for what Pamela Caughie calls "passing":recognizing and accounting for the subject positions involved in representing both the material being taught and oneself as a teacher.
Caughie's discussion of passing illuminates a recent phenomenon in academic writing and popular culture that revolves around identities and the ways in which they are deployed, both in the arts and in lived experience. Through a wide ... Read more
The current academic milieu displays a deep ambivalence about the teaching of Western culture and traditional subject matter. This ambivalence, the product of a unique historical convergence of theory and diversity, opens up new opportunities for what Pamela Caughie calls "passing":recognizing and accounting for the subject positions involved in representing both the material being taught and oneself as a teacher.
Caughie's discussion of passing illuminates a recent phenomenon in academic writing and popular culture that revolves around identities and the ways in which they are deployed, both in the arts and in lived experience. Through a wide ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252067709
SKU
V9780252067709
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Reviews for Passing and Pedagogy: THE DYNAMICS OF RESPONSIBILITY
"This is sophisticated and unsettling work-usefully unsettling. Pamela Caughie makes an original contribution to current thinking on the dilemmas of pedagogy in 'multicultural' or 'cultural studies' classrooms and presents a powerful case for why everyone should feel responsible for confronting the issues she raises."-Mary Loeffelholz, author of Experimental Lives: Women and Literature, 1900-1945 "An extraordinary book. Risky and rigorous, informed ... Read more