Experience and the Drama of the Development of Personality

Stretching performances in education: the impact of gay parenting and activism on identity and school change

“…(p. 84) Using cultural models theories, cultural studies, sociological, feminist, and poststructuralist theory, I analyze events, drawing from a range of recent literature to lay a foundation for understanding and articulating identity and cultural change (Holland et al, 1998;Leary & Tangney, 2003;Munch & Smelser, 1992). The works of Lev Vygostsky and Mikhail Bakhtin served as a theoretical foundation partially because the dialogic creation of culture entails individuals acting upon and within their own social milieu as agents, sometimes restructuring opportunities within a wider social purview (Iaroshevskii, 1999;Bakhtin, 1935Bakhtin, /1981. Proponents of cultural models theories have asserted that any effective theory of identity must situate the individual within figured worlds of the social because persons choose from among options for expressing who they are in particular contexts (Holland et al, 1998).…”