ISBN:
9781137547859
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (179 p)
Series Statement:
Anthropological Studies of Education
Series Statement:
Anthropological Studies of Education Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Stambach, Amy Anthropological Perspectives on Student Futures : Youth and the Politics of Possibility
DDC:
370
Keywords:
Social policy
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figure -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Introduction -- Aspirations Within a Field of Play -- Realizations Related to Emergent Horizons -- The Politics of Possibility -- References -- Part I: Aspirations -- Chapter 2: Aspiration as Capacity and Compulsion: The Futures of Urban Middle-Class Youth in India -- Preparing for the Future at School -- Aspiring at College -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: "Too Good to Teach": Bhutanese Students and a Hierarchy of Aspirations -- An Investment or a Gamble?
Abstract:
"This College Was Not My First Choice": Learning Aspirations -- Narrowing Possibilities: "The Best and Only Option" -- "Too Good to Teach" -- Who Can Wait for Something Better? -- I Want to Be a Sunflower -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: A "Golden Generation"? Framing the Future Among Senior Students at Gülen-Inspired Schools in Urban Tanzania -- Context and Methodology -- Moral Formation and Visions of the Future -- Maneuvering Between Social Contexts and Future Pathways -- Securing Futures: Transnational Social Capital and Supervised Morality -- Conclusion -- References
Abstract:
Chapter 5: Aspiration, Piety, and Traditionalism Among Indonesian Islamic Boarding School Girls -- Research Methods -- Traditionalist Islam in Indonesia -- Middle-Class Aspirations and Traditionalism -- The Pesantren as a Critical Step in an Educational Pilgrimage -- Imagined Futures, Pious Selves -- Aspiration Through a Traditionalist Lens -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Realizations -- Chapter 6: Schooling in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Hopes, Struggles, and Contested Responsibilities -- Hoping to Find Hope -- Being Taught How to Hope -- The (Im)materialization of Hope
Abstract:
Fixing the Future -- Fixing the Future (Again) -- Alternative Possibilities and the Struggle for Fulfillment -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Betrayed Futures: Uneconomic Schooling in Liberalizing Kerala (India) -- English-Medium and Vernacular Schooling in Post-colonial, Liberalizing Kerala -- Theoretical Frameworks: Consumption, Caste, and Hope -- Sites, Histories, Methods -- Death, Love, and Betrayal -- Segregated Poverty, Shrinking Temporality -- Obsessive Hope, Punishing Love -- Stepping into the Future -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References
Abstract:
Chapter 8: Practice for the Future: The Aspirational Politics of Nigerian Students -- "I Need Job" -- Young Africa -- Education and Politics in Post-Military Nigeria -- Roadmap1 -- "Deji" -- "Obi" -- Aspirational Politics -- Note -- References -- Chapter 9: Hopeful Engagement: The Sentimental Education of University-Sponsored Service Learning -- Introduction -- DukeEngage and the Ascendance of "Global" Education -- The Neoliberal Sentimentality of Service -- Producing Hope, Managing Engagement -- Food, Taste, and the Limits of Hope -- The Education of Hope -- Notes -- References
Abstract:
Part III: Afterword
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