Producing, challenging and negotiating educated identities, a Postscript

Aikman, Sheila (2025) Producing, challenging and negotiating educated identities, a Postscript. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 55 (8). pp. 1448-1451. ISSN 0305-7925

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Abstract

This Postscript reflects on the challenge set down in this Special Issue ‘Unsettling Education’ on producing, challenging and negotiating educated identities to reimagine what ‘being educated’ is, what it means and how it is valued. Over and above the acquisition of certified bodies of knowledge and skills through formal institutions, educated identities emerge through action and agency in socially situated contexts. Drawing on discussions of ‘exposure’ in the Special Issue, the Postscript explores learning as dynamic and lifelong in relation to contexts in the Peruvian Amazon. It demonstrates how learning emerges from interactions and encounters with new and different people, places and ideas and how interaction between and across generations can consolidate and validate young people’s educated identities.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Gender and Development Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Literacy and Development Group
Related URLs:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	14 Nov 2025 14:30
Last Modified:	17 Nov 2025 04:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/100971
DOI:	10.1080/03057925.2025.2544517

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