This is the tenth in a series of notes to lectures for my class ITSF4010 "Cultural & Social Bases of Education" ( )

• Holland, Dorothy Identity and agency in cultural worlds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1998 (Chapter 13)

From exploring the systems that catch, control, and identify persons to the impact of all this on an individual person

1. The view from cognitive and personality psychologies: genes, learning and trauma
   1. the universal model of the infant as blank slate (Chomsky, Piaget)
   2. imprinting the infant (Skinner, Freud, etc.)
   3. the burying of mis-understandings (Bettleheim on autism)
2. The view from Boasian anthropology
   1. "Culture and Personality"
      1. Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead
      2. Malinowski on Freud
   2. Culture and cognition
      1. Sapir and Whorf
3. Identity and identification: the products of authority and power
   1. Naming
   2. placing
   3. classifying
4. Identity, narratives of the self, and significant, signifying Others (on lived, not dead, experience)
   1. identity as experience of the self (the taste of a banana)
   2. identity as performance and everyday practice (the telling of the taste of a banana, the eating of the banana, the cooking of a banana)
   3. Holland on identity (conditions and possibilites with consequences)
      1. figured worlds
      2. positionality
      3. space of authoring
      4. improvisation and play