Academic Success as Willful-Resistance: Theorising with Refugee-Background Students in Australia

Autor/in	Ramos, Fabiane
Titel	Academic Success as Willful-Resistance: Theorising with Refugee-Background Students in Australia
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 42 (2021) 3, S.440-455 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ramos, Fabiane)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
DOI	10.1080/01596306.2020.1718063
Schlagwörter	Refugees; Student Characteristics; Academic Achievement; Educational Attainment; Resilience (Psychology); Power Structure; Foreign Countries; Social Support Groups; Personal Narratives; Academic Persistence; Educational Background; Secondary Education; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Flüchtling; Schulleistung; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Ausland; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Erlebniserzählung; Vorbildung; Sekundarbereich; Australien
Abstract	This paper is about theorising with seven refugee-background youth, who have successfully completed their secondary studies in Australia. Using conversations-as-method, the focus is on how research partners theorise academic success, and on the reading I developed in response to their reflections. Inspired by the commonalities in Lugones' and Ahmed's work, especially their focus on persistence as an agentic stance in the face of adversity, I propose reading academic success in the context of this study as acts of willful-resistance (Spelling of 'willful' based on [Ahmed, S. (2012). Whiteness and the general will: Diversity work as willful work. "philoSOPHIA," 2(1), 1-20]). Here, willful-resistance is very much about students' persistence and a refusal to being reduced to victimised objects. In addition, academic success as willful-resistance works in coalition with other forces within/against layers of entangled contexts and oppressions/privileges. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01