Overview
Education research has seen a phenomenal growth in studies that explore the multiple, fluid, and changing complexities of culture and identity work. The nuanced, contradictory, and process-oriented nature of identity and identification has meant that the studies in education are largely, and appropriately, qualitative and ethnographic. However, because qualitative studies are marked by their focus on the particular, it has been difficult to discern exactly what these studies contribute to identity theory collectively.In Cultural Constructions of Identity, a set of meta-ethnographic syntheses of qualitative studies addressing identity become the vehicle to speak across single studies to address cultural identity theory. Meta-Ethnography, first developed by Noblit and Hare in 1988, incorporates a translation theory of interpretation so that the unique aspects of studies are preserved to the degree possible while also revealing the analogies between these studies. While the studies in this book examine the various intersections of race and ethnicity with respect to gender, age, class, and sexuality, Cultural Constructions of Identity turns its primary focus on what these studies reveal about identity and identification theory itself.
Full Product Details
Author: Luis Urrieta (Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in Education, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, College of Education, The University of Texas at Austin) ,
George W. Noblit (Joseph R. Neikirk Distinguished Professor of Sociology of Education, School of Education, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.422kg
ISBN: 9780190676087
ISBN 10: 0190676086
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 27 April 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Author Information
Luis Urrieta, Jr. is an interdisciplinary scholar who specializes in the study identity, agency, social movements related to education, and learning in family and community contexts. He is specifically interested in Latinx and Indigenous cultures, Indigenous migrations, Indigenous knowledge systems, and oral and narrative methodologies. George W. Noblit is a sociologist of education who specializes in the study of educational equity using qualitative research methods. He has won awards for his qualitative research and is widely known for having created (with Dwight Hare) the most popular approach to qualitative research synthesis, Meta-Ethnography, and for collaborating in creating post-critical ethnography.
