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White Female Teachers and Technology in Education

Reproducing the Status Quo

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Part of the book series: Transgressions ((TRANS,volume 105))

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I was born in 1970 and grew up in a decaying area of the Northeast, Little Italy, Niagara Falls, New York, where my mother did the major share of raising my sister and me. My racial status, unjustly, provided many privileges in schools and on the streets compared to my working-class peers of colour.

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  1. Brad J. Porfilio
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  1. University of Calgary, Canada

    Darren E. Lund

  2. Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada

    Paul R. Carr

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Porfilio, B.J. (2015). White Female Teachers and Technology in Education. In: Lund, D.E., Carr, P.R. (eds) Revisiting The Great White North?. Transgressions, vol 105. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-869-5_25

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