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Racialized Embodiment: Subject Formation and Ethics of the Self of Asian Canadian Teacher Candidates

Through Foucault’s genealogy and ethics of the self, I examine the experiences of Asian teacher candidates in the K-12 Canadian school system and how those experiences influence what teaching means for them. I look at the connections between race, the body and education and ask, how do the embodied experiences of racialized students inform the formation of the racialized teacher candidate? In my study I reveal that discourses of racism and discrimination are embodied and constitute racialized subjectivity. Through using individual interviews and a focus group, I listen to the narratives of my participants as they recount experiences in education. These stories and my analysis have important implications for educators, scholars, researchers and policy-makers interested in race, the body and education as well as concerns of diversifying the teaching personnel and transforming curriculum.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/25671
Date01 January 2011
CreatorsResplandor, Sheena Ann
ContributorsColoma, Roland Sintos
Source SetsUniversity of Toronto
Languageen_ca
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis

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