Images of a Good White Teacher

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Pages:: 175–190

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848882829_017

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What does it mean to do good as a ‘white’ subject, particularly for those historically positioned as Other? This chapter draws on research into the dispositions of white teachers who live and work in a remote Indigenous context; the term ‘white’ denoting the entwinement of gender, class and race in the making of white identity. While overt acts of racism have characterised aspects of the history of White Australia, acts of benevolence on the part of well-meaning whites have equally constituted covert modes of racialisation. Incorporating ideas from Foucault with a critical whiteness standpoint, this paper uses white governmentality as a framework to deconstruct the life history interviews of its white teacher research participants. The chapter situates the white teacher in social relations and, by asking what it means to be a good white teacher, explores how racialised discourses govern good teaching and identity.

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Unsettling Whiteness

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Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2014

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