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The "R" word : voicing race as a critical problem and not just a problem of practice
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Warmington, Paul (2008) The "R" word : voicing race as a critical problem and not just a problem of practice. In: Satterthwaite, Jerome and Watts, Michael and Piper, Heather, (eds.) Talking Truth, Confronting Power. Discourse Power Resistance, 6 . Stoke on Trent: Trentham, pp. 143-157. ISBN 9781858564326
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Abstract
This paper addresses some of the challenges of delineating race as a conceptual problem in higher education (HE) classrooms. It takes a counter-intuitive position: at least, for someone like me, a black academic who has taught around race equality issues on and off for almost twenty years in further and higher education. It queries the pedagogic comfort zone in which race is explicated as a social construct on the grounds that the ‘social construct’ position, which I take to be correct in general, carries with it a tendency to depict race as a form of false consciousness destined for the dustbin of ideological illusions. This paper is concerned with how to focus in classrooms on race as a central social practice: something central to the social and political formation, not something that happens ‘elsewhere’ and ‘to other people’. This is not to assume that race is the master factor in lived experience but rather to emphasise its non-aberrant, everyday quality. This paper reflects on ways in which the problem of race is routinely opened up or shut down in classroom explorations.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||
Series Name: | Discourse Power Resistance | ||||
Publisher: | Trentham | ||||
Place of Publication: | Stoke on Trent | ||||
ISBN: | 9781858564326 | ||||
Book Title: | Talking Truth, Confronting Power | ||||
Editor: | Satterthwaite, Jerome and Watts, Michael and Piper, Heather | ||||
Official Date: | 1 March 2008 | ||||
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Volume: | 6 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 143-157 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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