Ithaca College

Dr. Ellie Fitts Fulmer, Assistant Professor of Education, has published her research, “Reframing Resistance: Understanding White Teachers in Multicultural Education Through the Course Identities Approach.” It appears in the edited volume, Identity and Lifelong Learning in Higher Education published by IAP.

Dr. Fulmer’s chapter offers course identities as a new theory for unpacking the resistance-vs-engagement binary common to instructor interpretations of White students’ engagement in courses on multicultural issues. The chapter articulates how a course identities approach can help teacher educators in urging White students to unlearn the ways in which they have internalized and enacted racism in their personal and professional lives.

This chapter belongs to volume one of the series, I Am What I Become: Constructing Identities as Lifelong Learners, a diverse collection of empirical research and narrative essays in identity development, adult development, and adult learning.

For more information about this book see: https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Identity-and-Lifelong-Learning-in-Higher-Education