TY  - JOUR
KW  - Identity
KW  -  Internships
KW  -  Boundary-crossing
KW  -  Graduates
KW  -  Critical psychology
KW  -  Professional formation
TI  - Boundary crossing and identity re-negotiation in internships: The integrative, future-oriented and transformational potential of interns? identity project
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2020.100383
AV  - public
JF  - Learning, Culture and Social Interaction
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
SN  - 2210-6561
ID  - discovery10096714
PB  - Elsevier
A1  - Popov, J
VL  - 24
Y1  - 2020/03//
N2  - This paper explores students' and recent graduates' experience of boundary-crossing in an internship. It draws on the dialogical approach to focus group to show how young people's reflections on their internship experience suggest the importance of their identity project. In particular, the paper argues that interns' identity projects can be seen as semiotic resources that are (i) articulated, refined or enhanced through internship experience and (ii) driving future cycles of boundary crossing by shaping their plans for the future. The interns' identity project is, on one hand, consequential or emerges from past activities and integrates preference, values and commitments into a coherent narrative whole. On the other hand, the identity project informs plans, preferences and orientations to future and shapes how young people create their professional and personal trajectories.
ER  -