Understanding Sociological Theory for Educational Practices

1. The unseen half: theories for educational practices Tania Ferfolja, Criss Jones Diaz and Jacqueline Ullman; Part I. Applying Poststructuralism: 2. Preservice teacher identities and the social construction of childhood Son Truong; 3. Gender and sexuality diversity, policy framings and the construction of the subject Tania Ferfolja; 4. Regulating 'gender climate': exploring the social construction of gender and sexuality in regional and rural Australian schools Jacqueline Ullman; Part II. Intersecting Theories for Meaning: Postcolonialism, Critical Race Theory and Cultural Theory: 5. Destabilising privilege: disrupting deficit thinking in white preservice teachers on professional experience in cultural diverse, high poverty schools Jo Lampert and Bruce Burnett; 6. More than cultural celebrations: Indigenous identities in school settings Marnee Shay; 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 Criss Jones Diaz; 8. 'Disaffected' youth: intersections of class and ethnicity Mohamed Moustakim; Part III. Using Critical Theory: 9. Culture, hybridity and globalisation: rethinking multicultural education in schools Megan Watkins; 10. Social class and the classroom: a reflection on the role of schooling and mothering in the production and reproduction of disadvantage and privilege Kate Huppatz; 11. Digital literacies: understanding the literate practices of refugee kids in an after-school media club Karen Dooley; 12. Reflections on language and literacy: recognising what young people know and can do Jacqueline D'warte; 13. Final ruminations on the 'unseen half' Jacqueline Ullman, Criss Jones Diaz and Tania Ferfolja.