Producing "Confident" Children: Negotiating Childhood in Fijian Kindergartens

Autor/in	Brison, Karen J.
Titel	Producing "Confident" Children: Negotiating Childhood in Fijian Kindergartens
Quelle	In: Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 42 (2011) 3, S.230-244 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-7761
DOI	10.1111/j.1548-1492.2011.01129.x
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Kindergarten; Self Esteem; Social Class; Identification; Ethnicity; Teacher Attitudes; Parent Attitudes; Cultural Maintenance; Social Differences; Fiji + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Ethnizität; Lehrerverhalten; Elternverhalten; Sozialer Unterschied; Fidschi
Abstract	Kindergartens in Fiji contribute to incipient class-based identities in a society traditionally structured by ethnicity. Teachers emphasize making children confident, but define confidence differently with varying student groups, building class-based orientations toward person and society. Parental expectations also differ with many upwardly mobile professional parents preferring schools that promote identification with a transnational middle class, and fluency in English. These schools define confidence as the ability to monitor one's own actions to conform to the demands of a larger corporate structure. Kindergartens serving children from less affluent families, in contrast, often equate confidence with grounding in ethnic cultures and languages. One implication is that preserving ethnic languages and cultures becomes associated with being lower class. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10