What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up? Self-Construction in Indonesian Street Children's Writing

Autor/in	Dewayani, Sophie
Titel	What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up? Self-Construction in Indonesian Street Children's Writing
Quelle	In: Research in the Teaching of English, 47 (2013) 4, S.365-390 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0034-527X
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Self Concept; Futures (of Society); Poverty; Urban Areas; Children; Homeless People; Writing (Composition); Occupational Aspiration; Sociocultural Patterns; Ethnography; Literacy; Native Language; Equal Education; Educational Attainment; Enrollment; Oral Language; Personal Narratives; Childhood Attitudes; Indonesia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Selbstkonzept; Future; Society; Zukunft; Armut; Urban area; Stadtregion; Child; Kind; Kinder; Homeless person; Homeless persons; Obdachloser; Schreibübung; Berufsneigung; Berufsziel; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Ethnografie; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Einschulung; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Erlebniserzählung; Indonesien
Abstract	The "Education for All policy" is one of the Indonesian government's solutions to return children who work in the street to formal schooling. Unfortunately, access to higher education, which can enable vertical mobility for these children, is constrained by many factors, including financial opportunities. This study examines the constructions of future selves through street children's writing about their future careers, or "cita-cita", in a writing activity conducted on a street median in Bandung, Indonesia. Through analysis of four focal children's writings and observations of and interviews with the children and their parents, the study juxtaposes the children's imagined future selves with the "realistic selves" revealed through their accounts as well as through their parents' understandings of higher education circumstances in Indonesia. This study hopes to enrich the New Literacy Studies framework by examining literacy practices in a setting of urban poverty and their role in the construction of identity within the reproduction of schooling discourse. (Contains 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10