Self and Social Identity in Educational Contexts

Kenneth I. Mavor is Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews, UK. His research focuses on the cognitive underpinnings of self and identity and the implications of social identity in a variety of contexts including education, religiosity, collective action and health. Michael J. Platow is Professor of Psychology at the Australian National University and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. His research examines leadership and social influence, fairness and trust, prejudice and intergroup relations, and group identities and learning. His teaching has been recognised by a Commonwealth Office of Learning and Teaching Carrick Citation. Boris Bizumic is Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the Research School of Psychology at the Australian National University. His research expertise is in social, personal and political psychology. He has published widely in the areas of ethnocentrism, prejudice, group identity, education, personality, attitudes, cross-cultural research and scale construction.

Contributors

PART I: Introducing social identity in educational contexts






Introducing self and social identityin educational contexts: promoting learning, managing conflict, facilitating change (Michael J. Platow, Kenneth I. Mavor and Boris Bizumic)



The social identity approach to education and learning: Identification, ideation, interaction, influence and ideology (S. Alexander Haslam)
PART II: Social identity in the classroom and playground




School climate, social identity processes and school outcomes: making the case for a group-level approach to understanding schools (Katherine J. Reynolds, Emina Subasic, Eunro Lee and Dave Bromhead)



Bullying and belonging: social identity on the playground (Siân E. Jones, Andrew G. Livingstone and Antony S. R. Manstead)
PART III: Social identities between the classroom and beyond




Why so few? The role of social identity and situational cues in understanding the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields (Kathryn L. Boucher and Mary C. Murphy)



The educational experience of students from low socio-economic status background (Jolanda Jetten, Aarti Iyer and Airong Zhang)



Indigenous education in Australia: a battle of identities (Diana M. Grace and Michael J. Platow)



Education and social participation: civic identity and civic action in formal and informal education contexts (Emma F. Thomas, Craig McGarty, Avelie Stuart, Girish Lala and Anne Pedersen)
PART IV: Becoming and influencing: the role of social identity in student life




University students’ social identity and health behaviours (Joanne R. Smith, Winnifred R. Louis and Mark Tarrant)



The role of psychological need satisfaction in promoting student identification (Katharine Greenaway, Catherine E. Amiot, Winnifred R. Louis and Sarah V. Bentley)



Uncertainty in transition: the influence of group cohesion on learning (Tegan Cruwys, Amber M. Gaffney and Yvonne Skipper)
PART V: Approaches to learning and academic performance




The role of students’ social identities in fostering high-quality learning in higher education (Ana-Maria Bliuc, Peter Goodyear and Robert A. Ellis)



Understanding social identity in education: the modifying role for perceived norms (Lillian Smyth, Kenneth I. Mavor, Michael J. Platow and Diana M. Grace)



Performance in small student groups: group personality, identity and norms (Conal Monaghan and Boris Bizumic)



Student identity and the marketization of higher education (Stefanie J. Sonnenberg)
PART VI: Insights and applications from medical education




Stereotyping and the development of clinicians’ professional identities (Bryan Burford and Harriet E. S. Rosenthal-Stott)



Hero, voyeur, judge: understanding medical students’ moral identities through professionalism dilemma narratives (Lynn V. Monrouxe and Charlotte E. Rees)



The complexity of medical education: social identity and normative influence in well-being and approaches to learning (Kathleen G. McNeill, Lillian Smyth and Kenneth I. Mavor)
PART VII: Making connections




The social construction of teachers’ identities: finding connections in social identity and post-structuralist perspectives (Emma Rich, Kenneth I. Mavor and Louisa Webb)

Index