Education - Philosophy & Social Aspects, Educational Psychology, Educational Anthropology, Psychology of Education, Ethnic & Minority Studies - General & Miscellaneous, Students & Student Life
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Overview
Elusive Culture is an ethnographic study of youth engaged in a passionate quest for identity in global times. It explores questions of identity and culture at a Toronto high school, a space wherein teachers and students alike shift and slide in relation to the policies and practices of anti-racism, multiculturalism, and the competing discourses of identity. Drawing on personal observations, conversations with students and teachers, experimental work in drama, use of video, and student writings, Yon develops a complex view of identity and culture, one attuned to the ambivalent and contradictory processes of everyday life.Editorials
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Yon (anthropology, York U., Toronto) examines a local high school as a space within which teachers and students shift and slide in relation to the policies and practices of anti-racism, multiculturalism, and the competing discourses of identity. He draws on personal observation, conversation with students and teachers, experimental work in drama, the use of video, and student writing to develop a complex view of identity and culture attuned to the ambivalent and contradictory processes of everyday life. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
April 29, 2000
Publisher
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2000.
Pages
175
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780791444818