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Recollecting Memories, Reconfiguring Identities, Rereinforcing Class Inequality: Schooling Stories of Alternative High School Students in South Korea.
- Publication Year :
- 2002
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Abstract
- The alternative school provides a specific institutional discourse, official and unofficial, that shapes the ways in which alternative school students participate in a particular discursive practice. The alternative school plays a crucial role in developing students aspirations by enabling them to envision a better future. Moreover, it helps students make and remake their constructions of self, as their life stories are recontextualized through alternative school experiences. This paper focuses on the way a student's alternative school experience stimulates his or her reflections on past experiences (i.e., mainstream school experiences and street experiences). It also examines how particular discourses of alternative schools (re)shape and (re)arrange a student's memories. The author explores how students continuously (re)construct their stories of mainstream school experience and their street life in light of alternative school experience. (Contains 24 references.) (Author)
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- ERIC
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- ED472936
- Document Type :
- Information Analyses<br />Reports - Research<br />Speeches/Meeting Papers