Identity in Science Learning: Exploring the Attention Given to Agency and Structure in Studies of Identity

Autor/in	Shanahan, Marie-Claire
Titel	Identity in Science Learning: Exploring the Attention Given to Agency and Structure in Studies of Identity
Quelle	In: Studies in Science Education, 45 (2009) 1, S.43-64 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7267
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Critical Theory; Educational Environment; Social Structure; Personality; Self Concept; Interaction; Communities of Practice; Research Problems; Research Methodology; Science Education; Science Instruction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kritische Theorie; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Sozialstruktur; Personalität; Selbstkonzept; Interaktion; Community; Forschungskritik; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht
Abstract	This paper explores the ways in which the concept of identity has been conceptualised and studied within science education. The Personality and Social Structure Perspective is used to examine the attention paid by researchers to three levels of identity analysis: "personality", "interaction" and "social structure". Tracing the development of science identity studies and the resulting body of literature reveals that most authors have focused their attention on aspects of identity related to individual agency to the exclusion of issues of social structure. This paper argues that this attention is related to the position of communities of practice as the dominant theoretical framework for identity studies and argues that researchers need to consider broader frameworks that encourage the integration of ideas at all three levels of analysis. Broadened methodological approaches, including mixed methods, are also advocated as a way to increase consideration of the level of social structure. (Contains 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10