Springer Gender, Race, and Class in the Lives of Today’s Teachers: Educators at Intersections

This volume explores the professional experiences of a vast array of educators through a series of research essays that focus on the interplay of gender, race, class, and sexualities as well as how these dynamics influence the educators’ teaching. The volume illuminates this interplay not only in traditional classroom settings, but also in non-traditional contexts such as prisons and juvenile detention facilities, family education, dual-language immersion programs, early childhood education, and higher education, including teacher training programs. The concluding chapter, written by the editors, provides general recommendations for recruiting and retaining a more diverse teacher workforce worldwide.  From autoethnographies to pláticas, testimonios and in-depth interviews, this qualitatively rich volume offers powerful and timely insights about the experiences of teachers who are too often overlooked.                                                                              Gilda L. Ochoa, Professor of Chicana/o Latina/o Studies  This illuminating book centers educators’ intersectional subjectivities and lived experiences, bringing to life the radical possibilities of transformative education. It is a much needed resource for anyone invested in understanding and advancing education as a catalyst for equity and social justice.                                        Lorena Garcia, Associate Professor of Sociology & Latin American and Latino Studies From the Back Cover This volume explores the professional experiences of a vast array of educators through a series of research essays that focus on the interplay of gender, race, class, and sexualities as well as how these dynamics influence the educators’ teaching. The volume illuminates this interplay not only in traditional classroom settings, but also in non-traditional contexts such as prisons and juvenile detention facilities, family education, dual-language immersion programs, early childhood education, and higher education, including teacher training programs. The concluding chapter, written by the editors, provides general recommendations for recruiting and retaining a more diverse teacher workforce worldwide.  From autoethnographies to pláticas, testimonios and in-depth interviews, this qualitatively rich volume offers powerful and timely insights about the experiences of teachers who are too often overlooked.                                                                               Gilda L. Ochoa, Professor of Chicana/o Latina/o Studies  This illuminating book centers educators’ intersectional subjectivities and lived experiences, bringing to life the radical possibilities of transformative education. It is a much needed resource for anyone invested in understanding and advancing education as a catalyst for equity and social justice.                                        Lorena Garcia, Associate Professor of Sociology & Latin American and Latino Studies About the Author Lata Murti is Associate Professor of Sociology for Brandman University, and winner of the 2015 Brandman Faculty of the Year Award.  She received her Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity from the University of Southern California in 2010.  Her dissertation, With and Without the White Coat: The Racialization of Southern California's Indian Physicians, won the 2015 Dissertation.Com Annual Excellence Award and has been published as both an electronic and paperback book. Dr. Murti has also published several peer-reviewed articles as well as creative and online pieces, including an article on men in early childhood education for the American Sociological Association. Glenda M. Flores is Associate Professor in the Department of Chicano/Latino studies (w/courtesy Sociology) at the University of California, Irvine. Her areas of expertise include Latina/o Sociology, Work and Occupations, Middle-Class Minorities, the Intersect