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• multiple-choice questions with solutions
• short-answer questions with suggested responses
• essay questions.

 

Files can be downloaded by chapter using the links below, or in one zip file.

 

• Chapter 1  –  The unseen half: Theories for educational practices

 

Part 1 Applying Poststructuralism(s)

• Chapter 2  –  Pre-service teacher identities and the social construction of childhood
• Chapter 3  –  Gender and sexuality diversity, policy framings
• Chapter 4  –  Regulating ‘gender climate’: Exploring the social construction of gender and sexuality in regional and rural Australian schools

 

Part 2 Intersecting Theories for Meaning: Postcolonialism, Critical Race Theory and Cultural Theory

• Chapter 5  –  Destabilising privilege: Disrupting deficit thinking in white pre-service teachers on professional experience in culturally diverse, high-poverty schools
• Chapter 6  –  More than cultural celebrations: Indigenous identities in school settings
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 8  –  ‘Disaffected’ youth: Intersections of class and ethnicity

 

Part 3 Using Critical Theory

• Chapter 9  –  Culture, hybridity and globalisation: Rethinking multicultural education in schools
• Chapter 10 – Social class and the classroom: A reflection on the role of schooling and mothering in the production and reproduction of disadvantage and privilege
• Chapter 11 – Digital literacies: Understanding the literate practices of refugee kids in an after-school media club
• Chapter 12 – Reflections on language and literacy: Recognising what young people know and can do

 

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