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Reconceptualizing the possible narratives of adolescence

Author(s) -

Lisa Patel Stevens,

Lisa Hunter,

Donna Pendergast,

Victoria Carrington,

Nan Bahr,

Cushla Kapitzke,

Jane Mitchell

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

the australian educational researcher

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.98

H-Index - 30

eISSN - 2210-5328

pISSN - 0311-6999

DOI - 10.1007/bf03216860

Subject(s) - sociology , essentialism , epistemology , narrative , context (archaeology) , subjectivity , postmodernism , politics , gender studies , linguistics , paleontology , philosophy , political science , law , biology

This paper explores various epistemological paradigms available to understand, interpret, and semiotically depict young people. These paradigms all draw upon a metadiscourse of developmental age and stage (e.g. Hall 1914) and then work from particular epistemological views of the world to cast young people in different lights. Using strategic essentialism (Spivak 1996), this paper offers four descriptions of existing paradigms, including biomedical (Erikson 1980), psychological (e.g. Piaget

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