scholarly journals "Just" Teaching: Linking Teacher Identity to Community and Practice

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 323-339
Author(s):  
Sarah Trask
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Teacher Identity ◽  
Institutional Racism ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
The Social ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
Classroom Communities ◽  
Authentic Community

Classroom communities in Saskatchewan are becoming increasingly diverse. Given that teachers may di er in race and class from many of the students whom they teach, the author asserts that teachers bene t from an exploration of the social construction of their identity. She tells stories of her experiences as a teacher on the school landscape in order to foreground her positioning and to interrogate well- meaning fumbles that she has made. Providing recent and relevant examples in a Canadian context, the author examines the consequences of social strati cation, such as de cit thinking by teachers and institutional racism in schools. She concludes that making the exploration of identity central in teacher education has the potential to promote authentic community in schools and classrooms.

Acute Loss and the Social Construction of Blame

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel D. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
African American Parents ◽  
Disenfranchised Grief ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
The Social ◽  
Murdered Children ◽  
Middle Class Blacks

Using interview and observation data from white and African-American parents of murdered children, this article explores a primary social process accompanying acute loss: the social construction of blame. Findings reveal that race and class are primary forces that shape not only the experience of loss, but also attributions of cause, designations of blame, and the construction of post-mortem identities. While poor Black informants encountered avoidance strategies on the part of authorities (e.g., police) when their child was murdered, whites and upper middle-class Blacks received emotional support. This differential treatment by authorities led to either legitimate or disenfranchised grief, both of which were addressed by the strategy of “sanctification,” a form of emotion work.

scholarly journals Chapter 3: Education and Social Self-Creation between Solid and Liquid Modernity

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Jim Garrison
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Liquid Modernity ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Mind ◽  
International Teacher

This essay intersects John Dewey’s pragmatism with Zygmunt Bauman’s sociological thinking. It explores the creative dimension of Dewey’s constructivism with an emphasis on social self-creation. Bauman’s notions of solid and liquid modernity – among other things his ideas about conditions of time/space and work – supplement Deweyan constructivism by specifying some characteristics of the contemporary social environment that contribute to the social construction of the mind and self. The paper situates the Cologne International Teacher Education Laboratory within the flux of liquid modernity before discussing what Dewey’s theory of inquiry may contribute toward teachers living a more enthusiastic, free, and more creative professional life. The paper concludes with a call for teachers and teacher educators to join with us in forming what Dewey would call a “public” of concerned, committed, and creative educators.

Buying Homes, Buying Schools: School Choice and the Social Construction of School Quality

2002 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Jellison Holme
Keyword(s):  
School Choice ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
School Quality ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
The Social ◽  
Lower Status

In this article, Jennifer Jellison Holme explores how parents who can afford to buy homes in areas known "for the schools" approach school choice in an effort to illuminate how the "unofficial" choice market works. Using qualitative methods, Holme finds that the beliefs that inform the choices of such parents are mediated by status ideologies that emphasize race and class. She concludes that school choice policies alone will not level the playing field for lower-status parents, as choice advocates often suggest.

A New Social Construction of Skill

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Warhurst ◽  
Chris Tilly ◽  
Mary Gatta
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
Sex Typing ◽  
Labour Unions ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
The Social ◽  
Service Jobs

There are a number of theoretical positions that inform analyses of skill. One such position is the social construction of skill. When it was first proposed it was driven by feminist concerns about the sex-typing of jobs and women’s exclusion from jobs labelled as skilled. This chapter offers a new social construction of skill. It appreciates that the old social construction of skill has not disappeared but points out that the context within which this construction occurred has changed, with weaker labour unions and the decline in the manufacturing industries. With more service jobs and stronger employers, the chapter argues that in the wealthier countries there have been two shifts: a shift in how skill has been defined and a shift in who has the power to define it. Focusing on gender, race and class, the chapters explains how the social construction of skill has been restructured in three ways. First, more importance is attached to ascription of skill. Second, who is and isn’t deemed to be skilled has changed. Third, the lines between achieved and ascribed skill are increasingly blurred. The chapter finishes by suggesting ways in which the discrimination arising from this new social construction of skill might be addressed.

Sorting through Differences

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raul P. Lejano ◽  
Erualdo R. González
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Ecological Succession ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Santa Ana ◽  
The Social ◽  
Authentic Community

Communities are sorted through differencing, the social construction of distinction. This, in turn, enables what we term social rendering: erasure of existing community and reimagination of an alternative one. This practice is founded upon an evolutionary notion of development as ecological succession, involving the intersectionality of race, class, and other markers. Such social genotyping leads to a genitocracy built around systems of differences. We examine the effect of present-day redevelopment practice on the Southern California community of Santa Ana. We illustrate how the processes of differencing and rendering undermine the sociocultural fabric of authentic community life.

scholarly journals Social construction of drug policies and target populations: U.S. Policy and media discourse

2017 ◽  
pp. 47-62
Author(s):  
Jonathan Langner ◽  
Anna Zajicek
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
News Media ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Institutional Racism ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Target Populations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Meaning Production ◽  
Drug Policies

In this review, we discuss the historical changes in U.S. drug policy discourse, institutional racism, and the social construction of target populations in media discourse. We do not intend to show a cause-effect relationship; instead, we use a social constructionist approach that focuses on meaning production and “truth-claims” to explore the relationship between news media and drug policy. We begin by discussing mass incarceration, war on drugs, and institutional racism. Next, we review a sample of the current research from the fields of sociology and criminology on drug policy, race, and media discourse. We then focus on the most recent articulation of drugrelated policy and media discourse – the discourse surrounding marijuana use, including most recent trends in marijuana discourse. We conclude by noting the possible direction for drug policies and discussing the need for research addressing gaps in current understanding of drug-related discourse and the social construction of target populations.

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