Shifts in Identification in a Hybrid Space

• In Event: Roundtable Session 82
  In Roundtable Session: Identification and Meaningful Participation

Abstract

In a hybrid space where people enact multiple identifications across time and space, this paper examines the question of why and how students shift from one identification to another in school. Through a design-based research in a high school physics classroom enacted to bring about a convergence of students’ out-of-school discourses and school-based discourse, we analyzed the nature of identification undertaken by some students as they negotiated multiple discourses. Using Bakhtin’s work as an analytical frame, we suggest that shifts in identification should be seen as a temporary appropriation of a dialogic other’s voice (or ideological stance) and suppression of one’s preferred voice that is performed strategically according to one’s situated interest at any particular point in time.

Authors

• Kok-Sing Tang, National Institute of Education - Nanyang Technological University

• Natasha Anne Rappa, National Institute of Education - Nanyang Technological University