Identity formation in five California conservation corpsmembers
Graduation Date
2015
Document Type
Thesis
Program
Other
Program
Thesis (M.A.)--Humboldt State University, Education, 2015
Committee Chair Name
Lyn Scott
Committee Chair Affiliation
HSU Faculty or Staff
Keywords
Corpsmember(s), Narrative, Social dimension, Temporal dimension, Clinical encounter, Identity formation, Robert Coles, Humboldt State University -- Theses -- Education, Direct observation, California Conservation Corps, Continuity and relationship, Erik Erikson
Abstract
In this study, Erik Erikson's concept of identity formation is taken up and examined in five young men and women of the California Conservation Corps (CCC), at a small, rural, CCC residential center in northern California. The process of how the five corpsmembers come to an understanding of how their identities—their senses of sameness and continuity—are formed over time, in relation to their families, peers, teachers and work supervisors is explored, and then specifically examined and mapped through direct observation, long-term, open interviewing, and a narrative rendering of how the five both have come and are coming to make significant sense of their lives, specifically with respect to others and to time, over the course of the academic year, 2014-15.
Recommended Citation
Loetterle, Peter, "Identity formation in five California conservation corpsmembers" (2015). Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects. 1928.
https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/etd/1928
https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/concern/theses/02870z274