ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the development of identity in relation to oneself, others, society and how these fundamentals inform GCE. At root, this chapter is about identity and society, specifically conceptions of self and others and how those take shape in different learning contexts. A sense of oneself is a matter of being, both in a micro and macro way of what it means to be. One’s self is made intelligible through an inside–outside conversation, such that the internal grasp of who one is or how one understands reality is co-determined through the outside sense of what it means to belong to people like that. A sense of self is a means to make the world socially intelligible, as it brings together people’s capacity to grasp difference among groups of others coupled with the desire to name and claim various identities in a way that makes sense individually and socially.
