Performance theories in education : power, pedagogy, and the politics of identity / edited by Bryant K. Alexander, Gary L. Anderson, Bernardo P. Gallegos.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : Performance in education / Bryant K. Alexander [and others] -- PART I : PERFORMANCE AND PERFORMATIVITY IN PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE -- Teaching is performance : reconceptualizing a problematic metaphor / Elyse Lamm Pineau -- Critically analyzing pedagogical interactions as performance / Bryant K. Alexander -- Exposing the pedagogical body : protocols and tactics / Judith Hamera -- Bodily excess and the desire for absence : whiteness and the making of (raced) educational subjectivities / John T. Warren -- PART II : PERFORMANCE, POWER, AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY -- Performing school in the shadow of imperialism : a hybrid (coyote) interpretation / Bernardo P. Gallegos -- When public performances go awry : reading the dynamics of diversity through power, pedagogy, and protest on campus / Denise Taliaferro Bazile -- Constructing gay performances : regulating gay youth in a "gay friendly" high school / Glenda Aleman -- "Playing the game" versus "selling out" : Chicanas and Chicanos relationship to Whitesteam schools / Luis Urrieta, Jr. -- PART III : POLICY, RITUAL, AND TEXTUAL PERFORMANCES -- Performing school reform in the age of the political spectacle / Gary L. Anderson -- Performance theory and critical ethnography : studying Chicano and Mesquaki youth / Douglas E. Foley -- Scientists as scriptwriters : a study of educational researchers' influence on educational decision making / Robert Donmoyer.

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"Performance Theories in Education: Power, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Identity breaks new ground by presenting a range of approaches to understanding the role, function, impact, and presence of performance in education. It is a definitive contribution to a beginning dialogue on how performance, as a theoretical and pragmatic lens, can be used to view the processes, procedures, and politics of education. The conceptual framework of the volume is the editors' argument that performance and performativity help to locate and describe repetitive actions plotted within grids of power relationships and social norms that comprise the context of education and schooling."

"With the aim of developing a clearer understanding of the effect, affect, and role of performance in education, this volume provides a crucial starting point for discourse among theorists and teacher practitioners who are interested in understanding and acknowledging the politics to performance and the practices of performative social identities that always and already intervene in the educational endeavor."--Jacket.

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