Multilingual Masculinities in Lecturer/Student Interactions

Abstract

While the previous two chapters have focused on interactions between students in the classroom, in the next two chapters, I examine the self-reports the students gave in individual student/lecturer interactions. While these interactions were generated within Millennium, they were not subjected to the gaze of peers. Instead, the participants presented a self in privately written responses and individual interviews in which I adopted the role of lecturer/ researcher. As Frosh et al. (2002) point out, individual interviews of adolescents in school settings may allow for a more serious persona to emerge. In this chapter, I examine what positions are evoked in the questionnaire and interview data and consider whether these are more attuned to the norms and practices of the academic community. I have approached the students’ self reports not as statements of fact but as representations of self when questioned by a member of academic staff.