Ethnographic Studies of Positioning and Subjectivity: An Introduction

Holland, Dorothy; Leander, Kevin M.

doi:10.1525/eth.2004.32.2.127

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“…(2004,252) It is through the body as well as words that Salim positioned himself in relation to reading, and showed how he perceived the situation and felt about the question asked, and this is evidence of a 'thickening' of his subjectivity as a reader (Holland and Leander 2004) and the story he tells about himself as a reader.…”

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‘I am not clever, they are cleverer than us’: children reading in the primary school

Scherer

2014

British Journal of Sociology of Education

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This paper examines the experiences of children learning to read in a multi-ethnic London primary school. The data are drawn from doctoral research, based on ethnographic fieldwork, with children aged six to seven years and ten to eleven years. Reading is revealed as a strongly emotional realm for children. The children are weak to resist teacher assessment of themselves, but nonetheless seek to create consoling narratives against what they perceive to be the negative identity of 'poor reader'. The data are distinctive, as resistance to school hierarchies and strong feelings about educational failure are manifested in the narratives of children as young as six years old.

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‘I am not clever, they are cleverer than us’: children reading in the primary school

Scherer

2014

British Journal of Sociology of Education

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“…When readers rely on earlier knowledge and experience to interpret a text, they may supply meanings that do not always appear in the text itself. These meanings influence their identity (Holland & Leander 2004). Therefore, we cannot only make meaning of the text without also making meaning of the society and culture in which the text is contextualised (Martin & Rose 2008), and vice versa.…”

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“…Mzi's friends, represented by the pronoun they in quotation 1, are active in the subject position when 'they are moving out the way for her'. The verbs reflect situations in which a woman needs affirmation to shape her identity (Holland & Leander 2004). Ntombi expresses her feelings in the situation thus:…”

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<i>Broken promises</i> – A novel’s impact on shaping youth identity

Lundgren

Khau

2015

Read. writ.

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In many emerging economies worldwide, and in South Africa in particular, sizeable investments have been made in education with the hope of increasing literacy rates and hence producing a workforce that will fit into the job market. Thus it is important to understand the context and literacy materials within South African classrooms and their impact. This article looks at the novel Broken promises by Roz Haden, which is read in many South African classrooms. From a post-structural feminist theory and functional language theory, we analyse how the portrayal of characters and storyline can have an impact on young readers' identity construction in relation to the novel's predominant discourses. The findings show that men are still portrayed as dominant in their own right within society whereas women are defined in relation to men. Unchallenged, this portrayal can continue to perpetuate gendered stereotypes, which would affect young people's functionality in society. We therefore argue that while novels are good for improving literacy among young people, the messages they contain should be deconstructed and challenged so that young people can make informed decisions regarding their gender identities.

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“…Anthropological accounts of subjectivity use the term to indicate the internal life of the subject, constituted through thoughts, feelings, and embodied sensibilities [Holland andLeander 2004: 17, cited in Luhrmann 2006: 345]. In her widely-cited review of the field, Sherry Ortner [2005: 37] describes a "culturally/religiously produced subject … defined not only by a particular position in a social,…”

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Ghosts of Futures Present: Photographs in the Filipino Migrant Archive

McKay¹

2008

Visual Anthropology

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Ethnographic Studies of Positioning and Subjectivity: An Introduction

Cited by 203 publications

References 6 publications

‘I am not clever, they are cleverer than us’: children reading in the primary school

‘I am not clever, they are cleverer than us’: children reading in the primary school

<i>Broken promises</i> – A novel’s impact on shaping youth identity

Ghosts of Futures Present: Photographs in the Filipino Migrant Archive

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