Quick! Hide! Constructing a Playground Identity in the Early Weeks of School  

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Maclean, Rod

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language and Education (Full Text) vol. 10 no. 2-3 (1996), page 171-186.
Fulltext: Vol. 10, No. 2 & 3, p 171-186.pdf (228.89KB)

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The purpose of this article is to examine one child’s reconstruction of identity in the transition from preschool to school-based patterns of play in the early weeks of schooling. An approach to the study of identity formation is outlined which makes use of detailed linguistic interactional data. This approach is one which recognises the relations of desire, power and representation in the construction of subjectivity, and in which identity is seen as unstable and multiple and constituted by the details of moment by moment interaction. The study is based on transcripts derived from a video-recording of the subject’s interactions with older children over a single lunchtime play period. It is found that these interactions can be characterised in terms of a conflict between her desire to maintain autonomous preschool based play routines, and her desire be initiated into the new and different practices of the school-based playground community. An implication is drawn that learning to participate successfully within peer and playground culture is essential to the formation of children as schoolgirls and schoolboys, and is strongly related to how positive and productive they find the experience of schooling.

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