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Breaking Bad Habits of Race and Gender: Transforming Identity in Schoolsreviewed by Sue Ellen Henry - January 19, 2010 Title: Breaking Bad Habits of Race and Gender: Transforming Identity in Schools Author(s): Sarah Marie Stitzlein Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham ISBN: 0742563596, Pages: 144, Year: 2009 Search for book at Amazon.com Sarah Stitzleins book Breaking Bad Habits of Race and Gender draws on long-standing Deweyan tradition of social problem solving while also utilizing some more recent work by Judith Butler to elaborate on the notion of flexible identity(ies). Combining these generative traditions offers readers a thoroughly new way of conceiving of behaviors relative to self-identification and thinking about identity(ies) of others, particularly those who have been historically marginalized in our society. The argument also gently builds toward powerful and important insights into the potential for schools to serve as sites of social change. The reasoning is sophisticated, and the writing is exceptionally clear. The primary argument of the book is that cultivating flexible habits that allow individuals to self-reflect and to resist the sedimentation of bad habits provides a procedural framework for reducing prejudice and racism, particularly in schools. This is a theoretically sophisticated and compelling argument, one that scholars interested... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Sue Henry
Bucknell University E-mail Author SUE ELLEN HENRY is an Associate Professor of Education at Bucknell University, where she teaches social foundations of education, multiculturalism and education, and a course on democracy and education. Her research interests focus on issues of social class in classrooms and the role of emotion in teaching and learning. She has published work in Educational Studies, Educational Theory, Teachers College Record. She recently completed a chapter for an edited work for Motherhood & Philosophy, part of the Everyday Philosophy Series published by Wiley-Blackwell, focused on the "quest for certainty" in new mothering.
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