AERA 2003
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Identity, Development, and Desire: Critical Questions

 

Jay L. Lemke
University of Michigan

jaylemke  AT  umich DOT   edu
 

The concept of “identity” is increasingly being asked to bear a heavy theoretical burden in discourses concerned with education, learning, development, and the relation of the individual and the social. I would like to raise a number of critical questions about the concept of identity in hopes of stimulating discussion in the education research community about its uses and limitations and how it might be refigured, elaborated, or superseded by alternative conceptualizations. 
 

Introduction

Identity is Multiplex: Why, and How?

 

Some Theoretical Functions of the Notion of Identity

 

Politics of the Concept of Identity
 

Limitations and Expansions of the Notion of Identity:


Identities across Timescales

Fear and Desire in the Construction of Identity

The Phenomenology of Identity

 

Transgressive and Anomalous Identities

 

Conflicting Institutional Demands on Identity

 

Post-institutional Society and Traversal Identities

 

Further

 

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