Research conducted in schools over the past two decades has found
that youth shape who they are in ways that do not simply mirror
class, race, and gender discourses organizing life in schools.
Instead, educators have learned that youth play active roles in
shaping who they are on a daily basis, challenging dominant
meanings and practices as they move through school. New insights in
these directions now compel those in educational circles to talk
differently about youth identity formation than they did nearly two
decades ago. While sound research on male identity formation in
educational contexts has illustrated boys' socialization processes
in school, there still is much to learn about girls' social lives
and meaning-making processes, particularly in the relatively
unexplored arenas of private education and single-sex schooling.
Probing beneath the surface, this book explores one year in the
lives of thirty-four adolescent girls in Best Academy, a
historically elite, private, single-sex high school, as female
students construct their identities in an educational context.
Through the eyes of these students, we find that the private school
is less of a homogenous and stable culture along class and race
lines than educators have understood it to be.
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