Subject Choice as Everyday Accommodation/Resistance: Why Students in England (Still) Choose the Arts

Autor/inn/en	Thomson, Pat; Hall, Christine; Earl, Lexi; Geppert, Corinna
Titel	Subject Choice as Everyday Accommodation/Resistance: Why Students in England (Still) Choose the Arts
Quelle	In: Critical Studies in Education, 61 (2020) 5, S.545-560 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Thomson, Pat) ORCID (Geppert, Corinna)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-8487
DOI	10.1080/17508487.2018.1525754
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; High School Students; Course Selection (Students); Art Education; Visual Arts; Theater Arts; Decision Making; Resistance (Psychology); Student Attitudes; Student Motivation; Aspiration; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Course selection; Kurswahl; Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Optische Gestaltung; Theaterwissenschaft; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Resistenz; Schülerverhalten; Schulische Motivation; Streben
Abstract	High school students are expected to make choices about which subjects they study. These choices are not completely open; however, they are steered by what is on offer, previous achievement and conversations with teachers, family and friends; choices are patterned by class, gender, able-ness and race. We offer the perspective of subject choice as resistance. The paper uses student focus group data from a 3-year study of the visual and performing arts in 30 schools in England. We show that students chose the arts not only because what it might do for them in the future, but also for what it provided for them in the everyday. We suggest that the quotidian is an important aspect of choice-making, which, in the case of arts pedagogies, both accommodates the highly regulated norm and offers a counter. This analysis points to avenues for further research on subject choice as well as provides important clues for school reform. (As Provided).
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