Re/Constructing «the Adolescent»: Sign, Symbol, and Body: 33 (Adolescent Cultures, School & Society) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820468037 ISBN 13: 9780820468037

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2004

Synopsis

Young people today are frequently demonized by media images as well as by classroom reports. Dominant discourses, as ways of seeing and talking about youths, are constructed and managed by adults and offer young people a limited set of roles to play and options for engaging with society. Contributors to Re/Constructing the «Adolescent» problematize the «social construction of the adolescent» through a critique of the discourses that position youths and an examination of how youths enact, contest, and sometimes transform those same discourses. These studies, combining empirical research and semiotic analyses, offer a fresh perspective on young people in western societies today, at the level of everyday discourse, embodied through gesture and symbolic action, with material effects.

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About the Author

The Editors: Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur received her doctorate from the University of Colorado-Boulder and is currently Lecturer in Sociocultural Psychology at The University of Queensland in Australia. Her interests are primarily in applying sociocultural and critical lenses to the study of identity and, more specifically, the social construction of «at risk» identities for young people. Ethnography and critical discourse analysis frame her investigations into the everyday process of identity work.
Lisa Patel Stevens received her doctorate from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and she is currently Assistant Professor with the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. Her research interests include young people, multiliteracies, critical literacy, and policy studies. Her most recent work troubles the race, class, and gender classifications traditionally used to define diversity.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820468037
• ISBN 13: 9780820468037
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318
• Editor: Vadeboncoeur Jennifer A., Patel Stevens Lisa