%0 Journal Article
%T Social Representations and Social Identity in Swedish Folk High Schools: an application of Duveen and Lloyd
%A Andersen
%A A.
%J Papers on Social Representations
%D 2010
%I London School of Economics and Political Science
%X This article extends DuveenĄ¯s work on social representations and social gender identity by discussing how it can be applied to the context of Swedish folk high school participantsĄ¯ social representations of folk high school and university, then examines the influence of these representations on participantsĄ¯ desires and ambitions to progress to university. Adopting DuveenĄ¯s framework to analyze several previous data regarding folk high schools (i.e., a document study of folk high school teachersĄ¯ magazines, an association study on folk high school participants, and interviews with folk high school participants), I seek to illustrate in this article how most premises concerning the formation of childrenĄ¯s social identity (as described by Duveen) also hold for adults entering a new social context.
%U http://www.psych.lse.ac.uk/psr/PSR2010/19_10Andersen.pdf