Subjective Difference: Institutional Culture and the Assessment of Fijian Female Academic Achievement

Autor/in	White, Carmen M.
Titel	Subjective Difference: Institutional Culture and the Assessment of Fijian Female Academic Achievement
Quelle	In: Ethnography and Education, 8 (2013) 1, S.31-45 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1745-7823
DOI	10.1080/17457823.2013.766432
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Academic Achievement; Females; Institutional Environment; Ethnography; National Competency Tests; Scores; Enrollment; Secondary Education; Working Class; Selective Admission; High Achievement; Gender Differences; Academic Persistence; Participant Observation; Statistical Analysis; Womens Education; Social Class; Cultural Influences; Comparative Analysis; Fiji + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Schulleistung; Weibliches Geschlecht; Ethnografie; Einschulung; Sekundarbereich; Arbeiterklasse; Bildungsselektion; Geschlechterkonflikt; Teilnehmende Beobachtung; Statistische Analyse; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Fidschi
Abstract	Several societies throughout the global North and South are now witnessing unprecedented patterns of marginally higher female academic performance and educational attainment. But the processes that have generated such patterns and responses to their development have not been uniform across or within these societies. In multiracial Fiji, statistics reveal higher secondary school enrolment and lower attrition rates for Fijian females compared with Fijian males, and while national examination scores are not aggregated by sex, Fijian girls are widely viewed as relatively "higher achievers". Drawing from participant observation in a working-class, co-educational, predominantly Fijian secondary school and a selective Fijian girls' secondary school, this article explores how the intersections of social class, culture and sex structure in schools mediate the interpretation of, response to, and assessment of Fijian female academic achievement. (Contains 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10