Replacing the Misplaced
Power, Autobiography and Learner Identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12928647 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tat Heung Choi (0000-0001-9002-816X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 46-60 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Power and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-7438 • E-ISSN: 1757-7438 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2304/power.2014.6.1.46 |
| OpenAlex | W2010432718 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 33 |
This article is concerned with examining how social class as a key aspect of learner identity is modified, reinforced or transformed through educational progressions, whereupon relationships change, power is redistributed and different forms of capital are prized. The dynamics between structural and cultural influences on working-class relationships to education are explored by way of autobiographical writing, and analysed through the lens of habitus and field. In operationalising habitus, the indeterminacy of the concept rejects a close, unproblematic connection between class and education, questions the assumed homogeneity of class dispositions, and renders a more fluid and dynamic working of class and learner identity. Arguing against the synchronic view of language characterised by regularity and internal consistency, this methodological orientation of habitus chimes with a textual approach that values inferential enrichment and indeterminacy. Using critical discourse in genre analysis offers space for potentially subversive interpretations, or for playing with evaluative meanings, of an autobiographical account rooted in the local and particular, but also sets great store in understanding constraining and transformative courses of action. This modest inquiry illuminates the relevance of autobiographical reflection to the development of agency and educational capital, with an emphasis on temporality, continuity and change
Aesthetics · Cultural capital · Epistemology · Habitus · Identity (music · Indeterminacy (philosophy · Social science · Sociology · Temporality · Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Psychology
Towards a Theory of Educational Transmissions
Bourdieu
The Logic of Practice
Life without the ‘X’ Factor
The Narrative of a Happy Childhood
Power and the Subversion of Stories
Widening Participation, Aimhigher and the Coalition Government
Schoolboys and schoolwork
Education, social class and social exclusion
School choice, social class and distinction
Higher education’s many diversities
Different strokes for different folks
Working‐class boys, educational success and the misrecognition of working‐class culture
They Employ Cleaners to Do that’
Zafar , so good
Schools, Families and Academically Able Students
Against the odds
Fitting in’ or ‘standing out’
Acknowledging the affective in higher education
Family Resources, Gender, and Immigration
The Zombie Stalking English Schools
Finding or losing yourself
It's all becoming a habitus
The Interactive Relationship Between Class Identity and the College Experience
Going on to uni? Access and participation in university for students from backgrounds of disadvantage
Strangers in Paradise
Meditations on Pascalian Meditations
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2018 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |