Framing My Name: Extending Educational Boundaries edited by Margaret Kumar, Supriya Pattanayak and Richard Johnson is now available from The Learner imprint.
Framing my name: extending educational boundaries addresses issues of name and the naming process and its impact on higher education pedagogy. In bringing together the perspectives of the authors, the book shows how students’ names are an agency of their learning. The manner in which names are articulated impacts on how students relate to learning. The process of naming involves an ontology that is related to students’ histories, their culture, their place and position within a social matrix of group and community. For educators, this means undergoing a scaffolding process of learning the background to names and naming processes and then applying this knowledge to an understanding of students.
‘This book explores a wide and rich array of cultural stories and meanings, of hybrid forms and possibilities, or tradition and encounter in names and naming. It has great practical value and is a pedagogical investment of its own, but a possibly greater virtue is its ability to look at boundaries and ask about their role, to push beyond them but acknowledge their function and enduring presence, to offer ideas about how identity and place, names and roles are constructed and how these function.
In several chapters, we encounter students and teachers negotiating their local modus operandi based on cultural sensitivity and draw the conclusion of the key importance of an advance awareness of the need to think more seriously and systematically about personal names. In Margaret Kumar’s discussion of names, we see how names and their multiple meanings is an instalment in the very process of global education itself, in which the expectations of teachers, lecturers and administrators about who they will be teaching and ‘servicing’, have been scrambled. The norm is less and less a norm. The editors, bring the perspectives of educators, concerned with effectiveness in education (‘good’ teaching) but also good effects from education (‘just’ teaching) and this double element pervades the ethical stance that the volume exhibits. This is one of its most ennobling characteristics.’
Professor Joseph Lo Bianco, Foreword to Framing my name: extending educational boundaries.
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