Learning About Learning

Identity formation and transformation play key roles in the most important aspects of learning.

Identity is constructed

Identity is situational and multilayered

Identity can be seen in the totality of roles and personae that each person displays

Identity is also constructed partly by others in two ways

- each of us constructs a limited interpretation of the person with whom we are interacting

- our responses and reactions to a person may bring out aspects of his or her identity that were previously hidden or unknown

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