Abstract:Stanton Wortham's Learning Identity: The Joint Emergence of Social Identification and AcademicLearning explores various sociohistorical paradigms as instantiated over multiple timescales of student identity formation. Wortham traces the progress of several students over one year in the Paideia program at Colleoni High School. The text focuses on drawing connections between curricular themes, student cognitive achievements, and the emergence of individual identity. Wortham contends that academic learning and so… Show more
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