Taking the Leap: Identity, Agency, and Action Among Newcomer Youth From Israel and India

• In Event: 58.082 - Roundtable Session 25
  In Roundtable Session: 58.082-5 - Learning Through Tension and Conflict: Global Perspectives

Abstract

This paper sheds light on the culturally, socially, and historically shaped identities of teenage newcomers from Israel and India to Canada and the USA, respectively, by harnessing theories of identity formation. Findings suggest that Identity, agency, and action are not limited to the experience of the individual of learning
mathematics and EAL. Rather, they include the narrative of the social, historical and cultural
contexts. Focusing only on the experience of learning mathematics and EAL
without considering learners’ social, cultural, and historical perspectives is limited and limiting.

Authors

• Rupam Saran, Medgar Evers College - CUNY

• Osnat Fellus, University of Ottawa