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- Title: Economies of Identity: Cultural Studies and a Curriculum of Making Place (1).
- Author : Journal of Curriculum Theorizing
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 208 KB
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This paper profiles research that developed out of an interest in youth, youth identity formation, and how people engage in the process of place-making (Massey, 1995). This project examines how students use the facilities of an after-school computer lab to negotiate and navigate the structures at work at the adjacent high school. Using qualitative methodology in a postcritical ethnography mode (Noblit 2003), students were interviewed and observed with special attention paid to issues of power and position both in the setting of the study and the practice of the study itself. In effect, these students engage in the process of place-making specifically to "get what they need" to find academic and social success in a highly socially stratified and segregated urban school--they both learn and create a curriculum of making place. The paper relates critical readings of theoretical texts from cultural studies and critical geography to interviews and observations with/ of the students of the computer lab to consider how students in effect create an economy of identities to function in their high school and community. Scene