ABSTRACT
In Chapter 1, we argued that identity construction and the development of agency are mediated by discourses and cultural models operating in social worlds. In this chapter, we describe the different social worlds constituting the students’ identities and performed within with the social world of community, school, family, and the workplace. Through participation in social worlds, adolescents acquire certain social practices and perspectives that define their identities as members of these worlds. They perform different versions of their identities depending on the demands of these differing social worlds (Moje & Lewis, 2001).
