Graduation Year
Spring 2014
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Department
Anthropology
Reader 1
Seo Young Park
Reader 2
Claudia Strauss
Reader 3
Gilda Ochoa
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© 2014 Jessica L. Warren
Abstract
Alternative educational settings that attempt to challenge Individualism are pervaded by Individualizing influences from the larger school system. This thesis examines the influences of Individualism in a school garden program at a Southern California continuation high school. Program members included high school students, college student interns, and two co-directors. Research was conducted during the spring semester of 2014. By providing an analysis of the Individualizing and non-Individualizing influences present in the program and the ways in which these influences interacted to inform the program structure and program members’ experiences and understandings, my thesis sheds new light on the complex ways alternative educational settings incorporate some aspects of Individualism, even as they challenge it.
Recommended Citation
Warren, Jessica L., "Growing Together Separately: An Analysis of the Influence of Individualism in an Alternative Educational Setting" (2014). Scripps Senior Theses. 498.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/498
