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Textual Tactics of Identification
Author(s) -
GOMEZ MARY LOUISE
Publication year - 2004
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 - 10.1525/aeq.2004.35.4.391
Subject(s) - situated , sociology , ethnography , merge (version control) , remedial education , identification (biology) , reading (process) , pedagogy , gender studies , mathematics education , epistemology , linguistics , psychology , anthropology , computer science , artificial intelligence , biology , philosophy , botany , information retrieval
In this article we merge de Certeau's theory of strategies and tactics with more recent work on socially situated identities to investigate how youth in one eighth‐grade reading class withstood and resisted identities of “being remedial.” On the basis of observational and interview data collected during a year‐long ethnographic study, we illustrate how students used various texts to participate in official school practices while subverting those practices.