Producing, challenging and negotiating educated identities, a Postscript

This Postscript reflects on the challenge set down in this Special Issue ‘Unsettling Education’ on producing, challenging and negotiating educated identities to reimagine what ‘being educated’ is, what it means and how it is valued. Over and above the acquisition of certified bodies of knowledge and skills through formal institutions, educated identities emerge through action and agency in socially situated contexts. Drawing on discussions of ‘exposure’ in the Special Issue, the Postscript explores learning as dynamic and lifelong in relation to contexts in the Peruvian Amazon. It demonstrates how learning emerges from interactions and encounters with new and different people, places and ideas and how interaction between and across generations can consolidate and validate young people’s educated identities.