Role-Play and "As If" Self in Everyday Life

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2263598
AutoresAvi Shoshana (autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen41
Número2
Páginas150-173
Fecha de publicación2013-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthos (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0091-2131 • E-ISSN: 1548-1352
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/etho.12013
OpenAlexW1912725198
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas45

In this article, I examine the use of role-play strategy and its outcomes in field experiment conditions in the Boarding School for Gifted Disadvantaged in Israel. Data derive from two major sources: governmental protocols related to the organizational production of a role-play technique and interviews with graduates of the experimental school years after their role-playing experience. Analysis of governmental protocols shows the intentional organizational usage of the term gifted within the school population is based on a bureaucratic simulation of giftedness, which in turn creates a distinction between natural giftedness and institutional giftedness. In-depth interviews with graduates of the school indicate that they experience their giftedness as artificial ("as if" giftedness). They describe ethnic conversion and distinction between two types of self (before and after the boarding school). My concluding discussion identifies a particular kind of reflexivity (the presence of absence) in the boarding school graduates' concepts of self. In turn, this reflexivity indicates phenomenological consequences latent in role-play simulations in field experiment conditions. The findings of this article enable me to address a pertinent issue of psychological anthropology not sufficiently discussed in the literature: the manner in which individuals who experience (re)construction of the self maintain their selfhood many years after the (re)construction

Bureaucracy · Developmental psychology · Disadvantaged · Field (mathematics) · Natural (archaeology) · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Cultural Differences and Values · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology