Abstract
Identity is known as the concept of how people come to understand themselves through the “worlds” they participate in and how they relate to others within and outside of these worlds. However, their identity that is constructed within their figured worlds give significant impact to their literacy practices, in which their literacy event, unconsciously, showed their identity and figured worlds that they participate in. This paper investigates one post-graduate student’s literacy event, sketching, by using the concept of figured worlds, in which it focused on figuring out how the figured worlds construct her identity in her literacy practices. The data were collected by taking photographs of the literacy events and interviewing to find out her cultural life, family, and social life that construct her identity. The findings of the study showed that somebody’s literacy events have a lot of implicit meaning rather than just a product of literacy practices.
Highlights
Common people think that their literacy practices and literacy events that they produced are purely based on their identity without any interference from the environment around them
This research idea was based on the theory of Phal & Rowsell (2005) that home domain constructs somebody’s identity, and generally the figured worlds that somebody participates in constructing somebody’s identity, in which it is conceptualized by Holland, et al (1998)
Figured worlds develop through the action of their participants, such as somebody who are involved in the sport world, he will likely produce his identity within this figured world and somehow, this kind of figured world will develop based on its participants’ works
Summary
Common people think that their literacy practices and literacy events that they produced are purely based on their identity without any interference from the environment around them. Looking into the notion of figured worlds as historical phenomena that involve social encounters, in which the participants position as the important role, it is believed that the figured worlds that somebody participate in will construct their identity through the social interaction among them (Holland et al, 1998; Phal & Rowsell, 2005). Since the notion of literacy has been broadened as social practices, somebody’s identity that constructed within the figured worlds will influence the literacy practices they are doing, such as the book they like to read, and anything they write were the reflection of their identity (Barton et al, 2000; Luttrell & Parker, 2001). The concept of literacy as social practice can be understood as a series of social practice mediated by written text, in which it has different types based on the domain where the literacy practices happened (Barton et al, 2000)
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