Abstract
The concept of ‘identity’ is increasingly being asked to bear a heavy theoretical burden in discourses concerned with education, learning, development, and the relation of the individual and the social. I would like to raise a number of critical questions about the concept of identity in hopes of stimulating discussion in the research community about its uses and limitations and how it might be refigured, elaborated or superseded by alternative conceptualizations.
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Lemke, J.L. (2008). Identity, Development and Desire: Critical Questions. In: Caldas-Coulthard, C.R., Iedema, R. (eds) Identity Trouble. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230593329_2
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