
Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications and Presentations
What Is Theorizing White Teachers' Life Histories?
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2010
Abstract
This research reflection on theorizing white teachers' life histories is an essay within an essay. The outer essay articulates the historical embeddedness or human sciences, like curriculum studies, that work within bounded communities and practices. Through their work, curriculum theorists participate in a process or subjectification structured by curriculum studies, other disciplines, departments, dissertation chairs, psychic landscapes, personal desires and insecurities, and mainstream research communities that would normalize meritorious practices and make them invisible.
The inner essay articulates how poststructuralist work provides a more sophisticated and dialectical approach to understanding white teachers' interview transcripts. Respondents and their language emerge from, reflect, and are constituted in outer discourses and practices. The inner essay, then, affirms subjectification as a dynamic historical process in which “white teachers” comply and resist, get along and fight, and make do.
Recommended Citation
Jupp, J. C. (2010). What Is Theorizing White Teachers' Life Histories?. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 7(2), 75-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/15505170.2010.10471344
Publication Title
Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy
DOI
10.1080/15505170.2010.10471344
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