Capital, Agency, Family and the Diaspora: An Exploration of Boys' Aspirations towards Higher Education in Urban Jamaica

Autor/in	Stockfelt, Shawanda
Titel	Capital, Agency, Family and the Diaspora: An Exploration of Boys' Aspirations towards Higher Education in Urban Jamaica
Quelle	In: Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 45 (2015) 1, S.5-25 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7925
DOI	10.1080/03057925.2013.812426
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Urban Areas; Males; Academic Aspiration; Personal Narratives; Case Studies; Educational Environment; Social Influences; Cultural Influences; Economic Factors; Social Capital; Guidelines; Higher Education; Participant Observation; Family Influence; Jamaica + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Urban area; Stadtregion; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Erlebniserzählung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Sozialer Einfluss; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Ökonomischer Faktor; Sozialkapital; Richtlinien; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Teilnehmende Beobachtung
Abstract	The paper discusses factors impacting on boys' educational aspirations at two case-study schools in urban Jamaica. It focuses on boys' experience of their educational environment in relation to social, cultural and economic factors, which shapes the nature of their aspirations towards higher education. The study utilised Bourdieu's notion of "capital" grounded in a critical realist meta-theoretical framework, the narratives of the participants and the researcher's experiential understanding as a participant observer to explore boys' aspirations over a 12-month period. The findings from the study suggested that boys' educational aspirations are complex and affected by their level of capital in relation to persistent narratives from family and the Jamaican Diaspora within high-income countries like the UK, the USA and Canada. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10