Understanding Sociological Theory for Educational Practices

Abstract

1. The unseen half: theories for educational practices Tania Ferfolja, Christine Jones-Diaz and Jacqueline Ullman Part I. Applying Poststructuralism(s): 2. Pre-service teacher identities and the social construction of childhood Son Truong 3. Regulating 'gender-climate': exploring the social construction of gender and sexuality in regional and rural Australian schools Jacqueline Ullman 4. Sexual diversities, policy approaches and the construction of the subject Tania Ferfolja Part II. Intersecting Theories for Meaning: Postcolonialism, Critical 'Race' Theory, and Cultural Theory: 5. Destabilising privilege: disrupting deficit thinking in white pre-service teachers on field experience in culturally diverse, high poverty schools Jo Lampert, Bruce Burnett and Kristie Morse 6. The perceptions that shape us: strengthening Indigenous young people's cultural identity in flexi school settings Marnee Shay 7. Silences in growing up bi/multilingual in multicultural globalised societies: educators', families' and children's views of negotiating languages, identity and difference in childhood Criss Jones-Diaz 8. 'Disaffected' youth: intersections of class and ethnicity Mohamed Moustakim Part III. Using Critical Theory: 9. Culture, hybridity and globalisation: rethinking multicultural education in schools Megan Watkins 10. Social class and the classroom: a reflection on the role of schooling and mothering in the production and reproduction of disadvantage and privilege Kate Huppatz 11. Digital literacies: understanding the literate practices of refugee kids in an afterschool media club Karen Dooley 12. Reflections on language and literacy: recognising what young people know and can do Jacqueline D'warte 13. Final ruminations on the 'unseen half' Jacqueline Ullman, Criss Jones-Diaz and Tania Ferfolja.