Identity work: a set of active processes (such as forming, strengthening, and revising) which serve to construct a sense of identity.
The main focus of my paper is the intense, reflexive, “identity-work” that students accomplish over the period of their gap year. Identity work is an idea introduced by Mats Alvesson and Hugh Willmott in relation to the management of corporations and further organization control. However, this idea is highly relatable to students taking gap years, who undergo extreme identity work which will prove to further affect their higher education career as well as future job searches.
This flow chart depicts the ongoing flow and ins and outs of the process of creating or changing ones personal identity through identity work.
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