Anthropological Perspectives on Student Futures Youth and the Politics of Possibility /
This book examines diverse ways in which young people from around the world envision and prepare for their future education, careers, and families. The book features cutting-edge anthropological essays including ethnographic accounts of schooling in India, South Africa, the US, Bhutan, Tanzania, and...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
| Series: | Anthropological Studies of Education
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54786-6 |
Table of Contents:
- CHAPTER 1: Student Futures and the Politics of Possibility
- Part One - Aspirations
- CHAPTER 2: Aspiration as Capacity and Compulsion: The Futures of Urban Middle-Class Youth in India
- CHAPTER 3: “Too Good to Teach”: Bhutanese Students and the Hierarchy of Aspiration
- CHAPTER 4: A "Golden Generation"? Framing the Future among Senior Students at Gülen-inspired Schools in Urban Tanzania
- CHAPTER 5: Aspiration, Piety, and Traditionalism among Indonesian Islamic Boarding School Girls
- Part Two - Realizations
- CHAPTER 6: Schooling in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Hopes, Struggles, and Contested Responsibilities
- CHAPTER 7: Betrayed Futures: Uneconomic Schooling in Liberalizing Kerala (India)
- CHAPTER 8: Practice for the Future: The Aspirational Politics of Nigerian Students
- CHAPTER 9: Hopeful Engagement: The Sentimental Education of University-Sponsored Service-Learning
- Part Three - Afterword
- CHAPTER 10: Reflections on Student Futures and Political Possibilities: An Afterword. .