Analyzing Preadolescent Males' Social Positioning and Struggles for Recognition in Classroom Literacy Events

• In Event: 31.091 - Roundtable Session 10
  In Roundtable Session: 31.091-8 - The Role of Choice, Stereotype Threat, and Identity in Reading and Literacy Contexts

Abstract

In recent years researchers have taken a closer look at literacies as ideological, cultural, and identity work. Based on the belief that the language and responses to texts are not neutral, and building upon Bourdieuian and Bakhtinian conceptions of the dialogic nature of language, the goal of my research is to examine pre-adolescent males’ literate identities and their uses of multiple discursive literacy practices to construct personal and social identities within the spaces of the classroom. At stake is the analysis of the ways the boys texts reflect and produce their ideological positioning in relation to issues of gender and the ways that these positionings were linked to their struggles for the symbolic "right" to speak in literacy events.

Author

• Linda S. Bausch, Dowling College