Exploring the Educational Aspirations of Rural Youth: An Image-Based Study Using Participant Produced Photographs

Autor/in	Lambert, Dana Ann
Titel	Exploring the Educational Aspirations of Rural Youth: An Image-Based Study Using Participant Produced Photographs
Quelle	(2010), (103 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit Ph.D. Dissertation, Colorado State University
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-1-1240-1644-3
Schlagwörter	Hochschulschrift; Dissertation; Rural Youth; Small Businesses; Ethnography; Academic Aspiration; Rural Areas; Counties; Grade 9; Transfer Students; Student Attitudes; Student Behavior; Visual Stimuli; Educational Environment; Family Environment; Community Influence; Colorado + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Thesis; Dissertations; Academic thesis; Rural area; Rural areas; Youth; Ländlicher Raum; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Kleingewerbe; Ethnografie; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Hochschulwechsel; Schulwechsel; Studienortwechsel; Schülerverhalten; Student behaviour; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Familienmilieu
Abstract	Education is an important variable in forming student aspirations in that it serves to help students become more knowledgeable about the world, more sensitive and understanding of their relationship to it, and more eager to contribute to the community. The purpose of this visual ethnography study was to explore how students in one rural ninth grade classroom perceive their home, school, and community environments as supporting and/or inhibiting their educational aspirations. The approach allowed students to describe their reality in a tangible visual manner by studying; what students do (behaviors), what they say (reporting on photographs), and what they make, (photographs). Cultural themes emerged from the three environments; school, community and home in which rural ninth grade students spend a majority of their time. This study was conducted in a rural area in the county of Colorado referred to as Steel County, located approximately ten miles east of the city. The community surrounding Steel County consists of residential areas, produce farms, and small businesses. The rural high school student body is comprised from sub-cities and transfer students from outside areas compiling a fifty mile parameter. The use of photography provided a unique lens at capturing multi-level relationships that impact rural educational aspirations. Student photographs successfully captured social relationships within the cultural, political-economic, socio-political and spatial context of a rural community, captured within the home, school and community setting. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10