Academic Journal
Willfulness and Aspirations for Young Women in Australian High Stakes Curriculum
| العنوان: | Willfulness and Aspirations for Young Women in Australian High Stakes Curriculum |
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| اللغة: | English |
| المؤلفون: | Duggan, Shane B. |
| المصدر: | Critical Questions in Education. Fall 2017 8(4):495-513. |
| الاتاحة: | Academy for Educational Studies. 2419 Berkeley Street, Springfield, MO 65804. Tel: 417-299-1560; e-mail: cqieeditors@gmail.com; Web site: http://academyforeducationalstudies.org |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 19 |
| تاريخ النشر: | 2017 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Journal Articles Reports - Descriptive |
| Education Level: | Secondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Foreign Countries, Females, Aspiration, High Stakes Tests, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Diaries, Secondary School Students, Planning, Gender Issues, Academic Aspiration, Social Influences, Racial Factors, Economic Factors, Focus Groups, Semi Structured Interviews, Cultural Influences, High School Seniors, Qualitative Research |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: | Australia |
| تدمد: | 2327-3607 |
| مستخلص: | This paper follows recent scholarship in youth studies in suggesting that young people's aspirations for the future are deeply enmeshed within a social, cultural, and economic articulation of what constitutes a "good" life that an individual ought to orient toward. It uses Ahmed's (2014) notion of "wilfulness" to consider how young people anticipate, plan for, and orient toward the future as a real and imagined space that is embedded within their relationship to everyday social, cultural, and economic practices. To do this, I draw upon digital blog and interview narratives collected across a seventeen-month period from three young women in their final year of secondary school in Victoria, Australia. These narratives take up the notion of "willed" space(s) to consider the capacities, energies, and projects that these young women tell about the future over time. Throughout, this paper argues that a willful lens is particularly productive for its capacity to move beyond an understanding of educational participation as a fixed site for realising aspirations to one that highlights multiple processes of becoming within novel spaces of identification and belonging. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Number of References: | 61 |
| Entry Date: | 2017 |
| رقم الانضمام: | EJ1159315 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | ERIC |
| تدمد: | 2327-3607 |
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