Title: Learning Identity
Subtitle: The joint emergence of social identificational and academic learning
Published: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Author: Stanton Wortham, University of Pennsylvania
Paperback: ISBN: 0521608333 Pages: 316 Price: U.S. $ 27.99
Abstract:
This book describes how social identification and academic learning can deeply depend on each other, through a theoretical account of the two processes and a detailed empirical analysis of how students' identities emerged and how students learned curriculum in one classroom. The book traces the identity development of two students across an academic year, showing how they developed unexpected identities in substantial part because curricular themes provided categories that teachers and students used to identify them and showing how students learned about curricular themes in part because the two students were socially identified in ways that illuminated those themes. The book's distinctive contribution is to demonstrate in detail how social identification and academic learning can become deeply interdependent.
Contents 1. Self/knowledge; 2. Social identification and local metapragmatic models; 3. Academic learning and local cognitive models; 4. Tyisha becoming an outcast; 5. Maurice in the middle; 6. Denaturalizing identity, learning and schooling; Appendices; References.
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