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Dissertation Information for Janet D Johnson

NAME:
- Janet D Johnson

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Education

SCHOOL:
- Indiana University (USA) (2005)

ADVISORS:
- Mary Beth Hines

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Phil Carspecken
- Stephanie Carter
- Peter Cowan
- Joan Pong Linton

MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected

Title: "I take everything very personally": The multiple identities, literacies and social worlds of non-mainstream female students

Abstract: The purpose of this research is to examine the relationships among identity, language, and literacy for three white working class non-mainstream female high school students. I do this by exploring how these girls take up certain subject positions through language and action, how their relationships and lived experiences contribute to their various literacies, and how they use those literacies to express agency in and out of school. This research contributes to the field of literacy studies by focusing on how the girls locate themselves , not just how they are positioned by authoritative individuals and discourses; and by theorizing that their ways of knowing and being, even when not tied to reading and writing events, constitute literacy practices, or social world literacies.

This dissertation shows that the participants' subject positions and literacy practices were shot through with personal, social and cultural ideologies that were based in their ethical beliefs. When the participants negotiated their way within and across the tensions between their social worlds, some of the issues and conflicts had a moral flavor, and each participant made a number of ethical claims in establishing her subject positions. When students' subject positions and literacy practices are ethically at odds with the discursive practices of schooling, the issue becomes much more complex than teaching them how to take standardized tests, use academic English or follow school rules. This study demonstrates how, when we position non-mainstream students as just needing to learn academic discourses, we are ignoring crucial questions of how student identities are invested in ethical commitments that clash with school expectations.

MPACT Scores for Janet D Johnson

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calculated 2010-12-11 17:15:32

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