TY - CHAP AB - Navigating the social fields of identity on the playground, in the classroom and in the community is a complex and intricate set of networks, each of which may simultaneously support or restrict certain individuals. For students in an American English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) reception class, and an ESOL pull-out program, these navigations are perhaps the most important and far reaching negotiations they enter into. Content-based study, knowledge of English, and cultural competency (all of these very important skills and understandings) pale in comparison to the social identity survival games played out by students and staff in the school yard. Over the course of 15 months in an American elementary school, the conflicts between non-discriminatory policy and discriminatory practice were examined. VL - 8 SN - 978-0-76231-018-0, 978-1-84950-210-8/1529-210X DO - 10.1016/S1529-210X(03)08011-2 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/S1529-210X(03)08011-2 AU - Greathouse Laura D ED - Geoffrey walford PY - 2003 Y1 - 2003/01/01 TI - NAVIGATING THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY: THE STRUGGLE FOR CULTURAL PRESERVATION IN AN ESOL CLASSROOM T2 - Investigating Educational Policy Through Ethnography T3 - Studies in Educational Ethnography PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 215 EP - 229 Y2 - 2024/05/11 ER -