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Post-Adolescent Identity Formation & the Emergence of Professional
Identities
Work, Identity and GlobalizationUniversität Bremen
March 28 - April 1, 2011
michael bambergClark University
Post-Adolescent Identity Formation & the Emergence of Professional
IdentitiesAdolescence
post-adolescent development (“college”)
Identity‘professional’ identities (“college + purpose”)microgenesis
How do we study ‘emerging identities’?microanalysis of moment-by-moment changes
in interaction (in vivo - - in situ) (as interactive activity)
in small stories
‘Development’ + ‘Identity’
‘Development’ is a THEORY (an ‘approach’) to navigate CONSTANCY and CHANGE We don’t SEE ‘development’we don’t SEE ‘constancies’ or ‘changes’
‘Identity’ is a navigation process of three dilemmas:constancy and change (how have I changed?) temporal
dimension
sameness and difference (am I different from you?)agency (from world-to-selffrom self-to-world)
Both consist of processes of differentiation/integration
rec: play with
time
---a history (“story”)of nation states, knowledge, andindividuation
sociogenesis--- globalization--- civilization---
Self-Other Differentiati
on + Integration
microgenesisMoment-by-moment changes
where actual change takes place in daily practices
“visible”?
Requiring a moment-by-moment analysis (microanalysis – “frame-by-frame”) <is the use of the magnifying glass a scientific procedure?>
Interactional—multi-modal analysisWhere a sense of self + purpose can be analytically
differentiated (+ integrated—into larger wholes)
Identity DilemmasNAVIGATING
Sameness/Difference (between self + other)Agency (from world-to-person vs. person-to-world)Constancy + Change (continuity/discontinuity/etc)
NARRATIVEThe means par excellence to navigate constancy/change In interviews (as self-reflection/of therapeutic value)
SMALL STORIES Interactively navigating all three dilemmasEveryday practices – moment-by-moment changes
Analytic OrientationWhat does it mean to analyze SMALL STORIES?
HERE: student identities In between ‘school’ and ‘profession’ (transitional)Peer-Interviews (three – each~one-hour long)Personal identity (personal history) – Student identity
(course of studies) – Answering the Who-Are-You (who-am-I) question – Engaging in identity-practices identifying trajectories (grounded in past experiences) identifying purpose (grounded in past experiences)orienting toward future (professional) identities