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The social organization of schools and student identity construction: The practice of becoming a student in middle school among newly immigrated Mexican girls.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The social organization of schools and student identity construction: The practice of becoming a student in middle school among newly immigrated Mexican girls./
Author:	Meador, Elizabeth Ann.
Description:	188 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-12, Section: A, page: 4727.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-12A.
Subject:	Education, Sociology of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9995747
ISBN:	049304695X

The social organization of schools and student identity construction: The practice of becoming a student in middle school among newly immigrated Mexican girls.
Meador, Elizabeth Ann.

The social organization of schools and student identity construction: The practice of becoming a student in middle school among newly immigrated Mexican girls. - 188 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-12, Section: A, page: 4727.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado at Boulder, 2000.

In this study I examined the relationship between the categories and labels made available in the socially organized environment of two middle schools and the responses of newly immigrated Mexican middle school girls by looking at what I called student identity. I found that student identity was constructed within the boundaries that were produced in the following features of the social organization of the school: (1) decision making about students' placements, (2) types of educational programs, and (3) peer group interactions. While individual students felt varying levels of estrangement from teachers and administrators, this was only one piece of the social construction of student identity. Other influences that emerged in the data were the power of the American peer groups to dominate the classroom discourse and the limited and constrained categories that were available to Mexicana students. Thus schooling for Mexican descent girls offered limited opportunities for achievement due to the lack of status they had as second language learners.

ISBN: 049304695XSubjects--Topical Terms:

626654
Education, Sociology of.

The social organization of schools and student identity construction: The practice of becoming a student in middle school among newly immigrated Mexican girls.
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520 $a Student identity was evidenced by three intertwined categories: conformity, motivation, and engagement. Students had a variety of orientations to these categories that were mediated by ethnicity, socioeconomic class and gender. The cultural ideal of the school promoted the white, middle class athletes who spoke English as "good students," and others were measured against that standard. Mexican girls were perceived as unable to be good students because they were often reserved, did not participate in extracurricular sports, and they were not "Americans," according to the other students.
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