Children want to succeed academically and attend college, but their actual attainment often lags behind; some groups (e.g., boys, low-income children) are particularly likely to experience this gap. Social structural factors matter, influencing this gap in part by affecting children's perceptions of what is possible for them and people like them in the future. Interventions that focus on this m...

Les auteures explorent l’identité que construisent les élèves de 8 e année en immersion française précoce, leur qualité d’apprenants du français, au sein des communautés praticiens milieu scolaire. elles proposent un modèle grâce auquel métaphores dans l’apprentissage d’une langue peuvent être considérées comme une forme récit à utiliser la fois pour susciter et analyser représentations métacog...

Like the protagonists in the previous works, Harry Haller does not fit comfortably into the social expectations of a middle-class, masculine identity. Because he conceives of himsetf as both man and wolf, he cannot feel synonymous with either image, cannot possess a single identity, masculine or otherwise. Like Törleß, Harry perceives more than one level of reality and in order to relieve his s...

In this chapter we explore the phenomenon of "girls fighting like guys" by listening to adolescent girls' justification for physical fighting with other girls. We argue that physical girlfighting is a particular kind of gendered performance--a performance of identity that expresses, at least in part, an answer to the question, "Who am I?"--that both perpetuates and challenges the usual notions ...

Identity is a core construct in psychology because it refers to how a person addresses issues dealing with who that person is. Important theorists studying the concept of identity, like Erikson, Marcia, and Higgins, assert that identity is organized,is learned, and is dynamic, and a subjective evaluation of an individual's identity has emotional consequences for that individual. Adolescents who...