Session Information
19 SES 03, Learners' Perspectives of Performativity and Identity Construction (part 1)
Symposium, continued in 19 SES 04
Time:
2009-09-28
14:00-15:30
Room:
JUR, HS 17
Chair:
Bob Jeffrey
Discussant:
Patricia Thomson
Contribution
In this presentation agency is defined as the power to produce desired outcomes and forestall undesired ones by executing planned courses of behaviour successfully. It is concerned not only with skills but also with what is actually accomplished through them. Direct experience, material relations of power and possibility and the traditions and practices made recognisably valid to individuals are all important.
In this ethnographically based research presentation from secondary and upper secondary schools in academic subject areas amongst highly successful pupils, the creative agency contrived from students in compromised performativity contexts in specific school classrooms is examined and critiqued from perspectives of creativity and social class. Self-interest has predominated and has steered agentic action quite heavily, particularly for the most successful students, in ways that have helped reproduce predominant class differences and class possibilities. Through the agency encouraged and rewarded it is still the children from places at the bottom of society*s socio-economic ladder who end up at the bottom of the ladder of educational success. A winner-takes-all competition has helped to maintain extreme inequality. Suggestions are made for changing education circumstances in favour of a less compromised and more progressive form of creative agency.
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