"I Want to Help Girls Like Me": An Exploration of the Educational Aspirations of Teenage Girls in Kolkata Slums

Autor/in	Ipe, Rebecca
Titel	"I Want to Help Girls Like Me": An Exploration of the Educational Aspirations of Teenage Girls in Kolkata Slums
Quelle	In: Current Issues in Comparative Education, 19 (2016) 1, S.43-62 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1523-1615
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Qualitative Research; Females; Participatory Research; Adolescents; Urban Areas; Poverty; Slums; Student Experience; Freehand Drawing; Interviews; Student Attitudes; Occupational Aspiration; Social Influences; Social Mobility; Visualization; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Qualitative Forschung; Weibliches Geschlecht; Forschungstätigkeit; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Urban area; Stadtregion; Armut; Slum; Studienerfahrung; Drawing; Zeichnen; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Schülerverhalten; Berufsneigung; Berufsziel; Sozialer Einfluss; Soziale Mobilität; Visualisation; Visualisierung; Indien
Abstract	This qualitative study used participatory visual research in order to develop an understanding of the educational experiences of urban poor adolescent girls in Kolkata and to elicit their capabilities. The sample comprised urban poor girls who were undergoing formal education at a religious, philanthropic primary school in Kolkata. Findings from the drawings and interviews reveal the girls' ambitions to be future providers and breadwinners for their families, roles socially accepted as the preserve of men in India's male-dominated society. Ultimately, longitudinal research on these "first-generation" girls may shed more insight into understanding educational pathways of girls from urban slums and provide more comprehensive understandings of social mobility. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Teachers College, Columbia University. International and Transcultural Studies, P.O. Box 211, 525 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027. e-mail: info@cicejournal.org; Web site: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/cice
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01