ISBN:
9781443886307
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (257 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Hamilton, Miriam Doran An Ethnography in an Irish Girls Secondary School : Exploring how Hegemony and Power Mediate Agency and Structure
DDC:
306.43
Keywords:
Education--Social aspects
;
Education ; Social aspects
;
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Abstract:
Based on an ethnographic study, this book explores the cultural experiences of a group of Irish 6th year girls. Facing the high stakes Leaving Certificate examinations while on the cusp of adulthood, this study contributes to the agency-structure debate from a feminist perspective. Findings elicit insights into incidences of social and cultural reproduction with hegemony evident in visible and invisible ways among the cultural group. This ethnography describes how a group of girls navigate this territory in school. It explores the effects of the personal, group and institutional habitus that mediate the girls' everyday interactions. The girls' peer interactions and contextual experiences serve as an explanatory framework, which references how power is shared, wielded and resisted among the myriad of relationships within the school. The school life of the girls is described at an individual and group level with themes such as friendship, conformity, resistance and alienation discussed, within the framework of school life. Findings related to youth culture and identities elicit challenges for the girls as they manage the duality of adolescence and scholarly endeavour
Abstract:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Bibliography -- Index
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