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Identity research is at the heart of many trans-disciplinary research centers around the world. No single social science discipline `owns' identity research and The SAGE Handbook of Identities draws on a global scholarship to cover in four parts its: Frameworks: presents the main theoretical and methodological perspectives in identities research.Formations: covers the major formative forces for identities such as culture, globalization, migratory patterns, biology and so on.Categories: reviews research on the core social categories which are central to identity such as ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability and social class and intersections between these.Sites and Context: develops a series of case studies of crucial sites and contexts where identity is at stake such as social movements, relationships and family life, work-places and environments and citizenship.
Identity Making in Schools and Classrooms
Identity Making in Schools and Classrooms
Individuals construct their identities in relation to others, and, in particular, in relation to understandings of ‘the other’. So for Lois Weis (1990: 3) identity can be defined as a sense of self in relation to others. As Bourdieu (2002) asserts, identity is all about difference. David Sibley describes how individuals engage in processes of boundary construction that generate ‘stereotypical representations of others which inform social practices of exclusion and inclusion but which, at the same time, define the self’ (1995: 5). This relational aspect of identities is particularly key in the context of schools and classrooms. Students’ identities are constructed as much through a sense of ‘what we are not’ and notions of ...
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