Discourses on Language, Class, Gender, Education, and Social Mobility in Three Schools in New Delhi, India

Autor/in	Proctor, Lavanya Murali
Titel	Discourses on Language, Class, Gender, Education, and Social Mobility in Three Schools in New Delhi, India
Quelle	(2010), (320 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Iowa
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-1-1242-0872-5
Schlagwörter	Hochschulschrift; Dissertation; Private Schools; Participant Observation; Ideology; Social Differences; Foreign Countries; Social Mobility; Educational Mobility; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Language Role; Surveys; Interviews; Group Discussion; Public Schools; Social Class; Gender Differences; Educational Attainment; Correlation; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Thesis; Dissertations; Academic thesis; Private school; Privatschule; Teilnehmende Beobachtung; Ideologie; Sozialer Unterschied; Ausland; Soziale Mobilität; Bildungsmobilität; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Gruppendiskussion; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Geschlechterkonflikt; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Korrelation; Indien
Abstract	This dissertation examines the ideological connections between schooling, mobility, and social difference among students in New Delhi. In it, I argue that educational mobility, especially with regard to English-language education, is an ideology which seems to offer a path to reduce social difference while in fact protecting it. I also argue that people who desire mobility engage in discursive practices which attempt to emphasize how their social positions are better than the ones they aspire to, a process I call discursive mobility. These discourses are inherently conflicted and contradictory, something I argue is characteristic of discursive responses to ideologies of educational mobility. Thus, I inquire into how different ideologies and discourses (dominant and subordinate) relating to social difference, education, and mobility interact, the prominent role of English in ideologies of education and mobility, and how the process of attempting mobility produces inherently contradictory ways of being. This research was conducted in two government schools and one private school in New Delhi, using a number of methods including participant observation, surveys, interviews, group discussions, and matched guise technique. I describe the discursive contradictions that come from attempts at discursive mobility, how language is implicated in ideologies of educational mobility, how social ideologies of privilege affect schooling experiences and mobility possibilities, how students discursively respond to social difference, and how the discursive worlds of students in government and private schools differ. [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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