Sarra, Grace

Shay, Marnee

Woods, Annette

University of Queensland eSpace

UCL Institute of Education Centre for Teachers  
and Teaching Research (CTTR) 
CTTR Research Seminar 
Tuesday 5th February, 12:00-14:00 
Room 675 
Our Stories Our Way 
Youth identities –  
wellbeing and school  
engagement 
 
Presented by: 
 
- Dr. Marnee Shay, University 
 of Queensland 
- Assoc. Prof Grace Sarra,  
 Queensland Institute of   
 Technology  
- Prof Annette Woods,  
 Queensland Institute of   
 Technology 
 
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Contact: 
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Twitter: @ioecttr 
This seminar will encourage discussion 
about the role of schools in identity 
affirming and formation for diverse young 
people. Identity as a field of study can be 
widely contested and is often conflated 
with various political and social ideologies 
that privilege dominant ways of knowing 
and marginalise minority groups. Identity 
can be viewed through multiple lenses in-
cluding philosophical, anthropological, bi-
ological, sociological, psychological and 
relational; making it complex and chal-
lenging for schools to actively pursue a 
role in identity development of young 
people, particularly in a fast changing, 
technological and diasporic world. 
  
We will share our work and findings from 
a national study in Australia on the identi-
ties, wellbeing and health of Indigenous 
young people in diverse secondary school 
settings. The study aimed to privilege the 
voices of young people as we worked to 
gain their perspectives on identity and 
how identities are implicated in their well-
being. Using creative, youth centred and 
culturally affirming ways to explore these 
concepts with Indigenous young people, 
we were able to gain insights from young 
people about their visions for maintaining 
strong identities and their views on the 
impact of schools and schooling in sup-
porting these 


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