Am I Enough? A Multi-Race Teacher’s Experience In-Between Contested Race, Gender, Class, and Power

Authors

  • Sonia Janis

Abstract

This is an article for JCT Special Issue –Narrative of Curriculum in
the South: Lives In-Between Contested Race, Gender, Class, and Power

Author Biography

Sonia Janis

Sonia Janis is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Studies Education at the University of Georgia, where she teaches graduate and pre-service social studies teachers. Prior to this appointment, she taught secondary social studies and served as a public school administrator. She has written about the multi-race/multi-cultural/cross-cultural experience, critical race theory, curriculum in the U. S. South, educator narratives and education for social justice. She is currently using narratives that reveal the in-betweenness of her life as a multi-race person to problematize imbedded notions of race, gender, class, and power, which creates possibilities to capture the contradictions and paradoxes of behind the theory and practice of multicultural and multiracial education. Sonia earned her bachelor’s degree in secondary social studies education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her master’s in Educational Leadership from Georgia State University, and her doctorate in Curriculum Studies from Georgia Southern University.

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Published

2013-02-25

Issue

Vol. 28 No. 3 (2012): Journal of Curriculum Theorizing

Section

General Themes

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