Stanton Wortham. Learning Identity: The Joint Emergence of Social Identification and Academic Learning

Abstract:

In a riveting study, Wortham demonstrates how social identification and academic learning are interrelated much more than we likely suspect, and certainly much more than we act upon on a daily basis. The work traces the development of identities of two students, during an academic year, and demonstrates how these identities were developed in part because of curricular themes. More to the point, the curricular themes provided categories that students and teachers used to identify the students, and the students themselves became illuminations of those themes. In the context of a study of Aristotle, students were identified as beasts who “allegedly refused to follow the rules”(6). Wortham argues that these models of identity are either explicit explanations of behavior or tacit models that analysts infer based on the behavior. Tyisa, for example, moved from being seen as a promising female student, to a marginalized …

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2008

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