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Curriculum as a Resource for the Development of Social Identity

Author(s) -

Stanton Wortham

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

sociology of education

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.396

H-Index - 93

eISSN - 1939-8573

pISSN - 0038-0407

DOI - 10.2307/3108467

Subject(s) - alienation , identity (music) , curriculum , ninth , pedagogy , theme (computing) , sociology , class (philosophy) , curriculum development , mathematics education , psychology , political science , epistemology , physics , acoustics , computer science , law , philosophy , operating system

This article describes how categories from the curriculum can play a central role in the interactional construction of students' identities. Drawing on data from one ninth-grade English and history class across an academic year, the article describes an adolescent who was assigned and came to enact the identity of a disruptive outcast from the classroom community. It then describes how this student's identity development was facilitated by discussions of a curricular theme. The article traces the student's trajectory across the year and then analyzes one classroom discussion in detail, showing the interactional construction of her alienation from school and how this construction was mediated through curricular categories.

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