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Contexts of Reception as Figured Worlds: Recent‐Arrival Immigrant Youth in High School ESL and Content‐Area Classrooms
Author(s) -
Park Jie Y.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12364
Subject(s) - ethnography , sociology , immigration , ideology , identity (music) , pedagogy , content (measure theory) , focus (optics) , gender studies , anthropology , aesthetics , politics , geography , political science , philosophy , archaeology , law , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , optics
Theorizing classrooms as contexts of reception shaped by ideological, relational, and pedagogical dimensions, and drawing on ethnographic data from a yearlong study of recent‐arrival immigrant youths' educational experiences in an urban U.S. high school, this paper describes how a group of recent‐arrival youth acted upon the discourses, pedagogical practices, and identity categories in their content‐area and ESL classes. It challenges traditional depictions of school engagement that focus on youths' personal traits and individual attributes.