Creating Spaces for Understanding Social Identity

• In Event: Roundtable Session 110
  In Roundtable Session: Transnationalism, Religion, and Social Identity

Abstract

This study, conducted in a third-grade classroom in Puerto Rico, analyzed the development of literature discussions, in which through dialogues with the teacher and each other, students learn how to discuss, analyze, and reflect upon what they are reading in class, and relate what they learn to their own circumstances. I relied on ethnographic methods, such as participant-observation, interviews, and videotapes of literature discussions, to document how the students, with the help of their teacher, develop discourse practices that allow them to reflect, analyze and discuss their readings, and then plan and take social action on the issues they have studied.

Author

• Aura E. Gonzalez-Robles, University of Puerto Rico