(Re)Authoring the Teacher-Self: One Teacher's Resistance to Educational Hegemonies

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable 7:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Authoring the Self and Others (Table 21)

Abstract

This proposed paper outlines one educator’s (re)authoring of his teacher-self as a caring and engaged beginning teacher, speaking back against overarching hegemonic discourses that seek to confine the racial, gendered, and linguistic dimensions of his teaching identity that deeply underscore his developing practitioner self. Drawing upon post/structural resistance and the “figured world,” this paper outlines how Efrain critically (re)authors himself premised on the intersection of race, language, class, and gender as a method of resisting dominant educational hegemonies. This proposed paper inspires the reimagining of male teachers of color as agentive public intellectuals, understood through an example of one educator’s resistance to prescribed educational hegemonies.

Author

• Angela Kraemer-Holland, Kansas State University