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Cases Of Changing Student-School RelationsThis section will apply the criteria from the previous section to clusters of events from each of the focal projects and will explore the meanings of similarities and differences within the work of each group of students. An effort is made to present the microanalysis within the larger context of the relationships these students have with school. Note that throughout, “teasing” holds a significant role in raising tensions to the surface, and as such poses some analytical difficulties. Teasing is always an expression of power and difference, but it is sometimes an expression of solidarity—of friendship—also. This problem is best demonstrated in the focal project at Urban High but can to some extent be resolved by considering these expressions as happening on different levels: Power and difference are expressed by teasing in the immediate. A sustained pattern of such power struggles and differences are possible only when an intimacy exists are is being established on a longer time scale. |
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