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Learning Identity: The Joint Emergence of Social Identification and Academic Learning
By Stanton Wortham
About “Learning Identity”
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.
Publication information
January 2006
Cambridge University Press
ISBN 0-521845882
Hardcover $70.00 ORDER
ISBN 0-521608333
Softcover, $27.99 ORDER
320 pages
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