TY - JOUR
T1 - The cultural politics of identity
T2 - Student narratives from two mexican secondary schools
AU - Herr, Kathryn
AU - Anderson, Gary L.
PY - 1997/1
Y1 - 1997/1
N2 - This narrative study provides an analysis of the identity construction of students in two Mexicansecondary schools within the structural, cultural, and informational resources that schools asinstitutions provide. A within-case analysis of the narratives of two students is explored in depth, emphasizing, in one case, issues of social class and, in the other, issues of gender. The analysisexplores the lack of congruence between the resources educational institutions provide studentsand their daily struggles to construct personal and occupational identities.Characteristics specific to the Mexican context are provided, and the ways that Mexican students’ dilemmas are at once different from and similar to the U.S. context are explored.
AB - This narrative study provides an analysis of the identity construction of students in two Mexicansecondary schools within the structural, cultural, and informational resources that schools asinstitutions provide. A within-case analysis of the narratives of two students is explored in depth, emphasizing, in one case, issues of social class and, in the other, issues of gender. The analysisexplores the lack of congruence between the resources educational institutions provide studentsand their daily struggles to construct personal and occupational identities.Characteristics specific to the Mexican context are provided, and the ways that Mexican students’ dilemmas are at once different from and similar to the U.S. context are explored.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85008857190&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/095183997237403
DO - 10.1080/095183997237403
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85008857190
SN - 0951-8398
VL - 10
SP - 45
EP - 61
JO - International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
JF - International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
IS - 1
ER -