Discourses and Identities in Contexts of Educational Change presents the work of fourteen
scholars concerning the United States and Mexico. The authors explore current and changing
educational contexts through the relationship between discourses and identities. These are
contexts in which the participants must negotiate multiple and sometimes conflicting
positions. The empirical studies reported here are grounded in contemporary theories of
sociolinguistics and literacy practices social relations conceptualized in dynamics of power
and identity representations. The book uniquely contributes to the challenges facing different
educational communities in specific contexts by using discourse and identity as the conceptual
tools to analyze the problematic and often unclear relationship among diverse educational
actors immersed in contexts of change at the local national and global levels.
