Adolescence is a particularly significant phase of life when young people try to figure out who they are. What is often a difficult task for adolescents is learning to express their multipe identities in personally meaningful and a socially acceptable way. Identity construction is a social and political matter because it is a teenagers struggle to develop a sense of self within a social sphere. This has implications for educational practice as well as for the social and cultural climate created in schools. It is importnat for literacy researchers as well as teachers in secondary schools to...
Adolescence is a particularly significant phase of life when young people try to figure out who they are. What is often a difficult task for adolescen...