Aspirations and Self-Hood: Exploring the Meaning of Higher Secondary Education for Girl College Students in Rural Bangladesh

Autor/in	Del Franco, Nicoletta
Titel	Aspirations and Self-Hood: Exploring the Meaning of Higher Secondary Education for Girl College Students in Rural Bangladesh
Quelle	In: Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 40 (2010) 2, S.147-165 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7925
Schlagwörter	High School Students; Student Attitudes; Secondary Education; Females; Ethnography; Rural Areas; Foreign Countries; Womens Education; Marriage; Social Attitudes; Sex Role; Self Esteem; Student Development; Equal Education; Social Class; Access to Education; Barriers; Student Motivation; Compliance (Psychology); Bangladesh + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Schülerverhalten; Sekundarbereich; Weibliches Geschlecht; Ethnografie; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Ausland; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; Ehe; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Geschlechterrolle; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Schulische Motivation; Bangladesch
Abstract	This study focuses on girl college students in a rural area of South West Bangladesh exploring the meaning and value they give to higher secondary education. By listening to their voices, the ethnography shows that unlike their younger counterparts, who stop studying in order to get married, girls who enrol at college develop more complex and differentiated aspirations for the future. They show a strong sense of self-worth and self-esteem in articulating publicly their hopes of becoming economically independent and more in control of important life choices. The study suggests that, by prolonging in temporal terms the transition to adulthood, higher secondary education challenges girls' perception of themselves, favours the development of a different sense of self-hood. and increases their agency and capacity to negotiate their own ways of being part of their families and their society. (Contains 10 notes and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10