ERIC Number: EJ1040987
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
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Performing Allegiance: An Adolescent Refugee's Construction of Patriotism in JROCT
Davila, Liv Thorstensson
Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, v50 n5 p447-463 2014
Drawing on a year-long qualitative study, this article examines how one refugee student from the Vietnamese Central Highlands negotiated social and cultural constructions of patriotism and citizenship in a Junior Reserves Officer Training Corps (JROTC) class at an urban high school. Data are analyzed using Butler's (1990) the theory of performativity, and illustrate how this student appropriated and transformed language and ritualized action to assert individuality in an otherwise rule- and routine-driven classroom context. I conclude by theorizing cultural practices of citizenship as they relate to the education of refugee and immigrant youth, and argue that researchers and practitioners must acknowledge the pedagogical and social impact of peripheral spaces in school, such as the JROTC classroom, in shaping many students' trajectories in and beyond school.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Patriotism, Military Training, Urban Schools, High Schools, High School Students, Accountability, Individualism, Immigrants, Student Development, Qualitative Research, Ethnography, Interviews, Observation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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