Kay's coat of many colors: Out-ofschool figured worlds and urban girls' engagement with science
Kay's coat of many colors: Out-ofschool figured worlds and urban girls' engagement with science
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凯的多彩外套:校外的想象世界和城市女孩对科学的参与
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10.1007/978-94-6209-043-9
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发表时间:
2012
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C. Brecklin
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作者:
J. Guerra;Angela Calabrese Barton;Edna Tan;Hosun Kang;C. Brecklin
The chapters in this book offer a range of points of view concerning identity and its relationship to participation in science education. In the studies presented, identity is foregrounded to show various ways in which learners, teachers, students, children, and adults take on, and are positioned with, different ways of being with consequences for achievement, emotional well-being, career paths, and status within groups. I take a sociocultural point of view when reading these chapters. Across the studies, I view identity as constructed as members of a group affiliate over time and build ways of talking, acting, and being that define collective membership (Gee, 2001; Kelly & Green, 1998). Within such social groups, individuals take actions to position themselves and define for themselves and others how they can be, and are, interpreted as members in the group. The participants in the examples provided have multiple affiliations, with associated ways of being, which may contrast with the ways of being in the local social group in the science education setting in question, leading to misunderstanding or conflict (Kelly & Green, 1998). Identity work includes how members of groups choose to participate, but also how they are positioned by actions of others, which impose constraints on potential identity development. Thus, in each case, an analysis of identity needs to examine not only the actions in the moment-to-moment discursive events, but also how such actions are part of interactional sequences, and how such sequences are made possible, but also constrained by the speech genres relevant to the social group (Kelly, 2008). From a sociocultural point of view, learning to be a member entails participating in social groups by building repertoires of discourse and ways of being that are viewed as making sense within the relevant group. From this perspective, identity can be seen as relational and social, tied to how people are positioned by others, and also how they take up identities, establish agency, and build repertoires of participation.The range of participants, educational settings, and analytic foci of the chapters in this book provide an opportunity to consider a number of questions pertaining to identity. What are the conceptions of identity inscribed in the theoretical perspective of the authors? How does the focus on identity make visible relevant educational issues? What is at stake regarding identity within and across the various social groups? I then pose some questions across the cases in an effort to advance the field regarding issues of identity, discourse, and affiliation. These