Education as Future Breakfast: Children's Aspirations within the Context of Poverty in Siaya Kenya

Autor/in	Ngutuku, Elizabeth
Titel	Education as Future Breakfast: Children's Aspirations within the Context of Poverty in Siaya Kenya
Quelle	In: Ethnography and Education, 17 (2022) 3, S.224-240 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ngutuku, Elizabeth)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1745 -7823
DOI	10.1080/17457823.2022.2071591
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Poverty; At Risk Students; Hunger; Aspiration; Social Bias; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS); Role of Education; Death; Kenya + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Armut; Streben; Bildungsauftrag; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Kenia
Abstract	This paper draws on ethnographic data to explore children's aspirations through education within the context of poverty and vulnerability in Siaya Kenya. Since several children reported eating onge (nothing) for breakfast, they hoped that education would enable them to eat and enjoy a good future. I demonstrate that aspirations as orientations towards desired futures have affective dimensions [Huijsmans, Ansell, and Froerer. 2021. "Introduction: Development, Young People, and the Social Production of Aspirations." "The European Journal of Development Research" 33: 1-15]. Consequently, in drawing from Deleuze [1988. "Spinoza: Practical Philosophy." San Francisco, CA: City Lights] that affect is a capacity to affect and to be affected, I argue that children's aspirations in Siaya are an assemblage of personal, relational and non-human factors of poverty, orphanhood, HIV/AIDS and other forms of marginalisation. This assemblage fuels a desire for alternative futures, and/or modifies their aspirations in complex ways. While children's desired futures might look impossible, their aspirations are also affective becomings [Salazar. 2017. "Speculative Fabulation: Researching Worlds to Come in Antarctica." In "Anthropologies and Futures: Researching Emerging and Uncertain Worlds," edited by Juan Salazar, Sarah Pink, Andrew Irving, and Johannes Sjöberg, 158. London: Bloomsbury], and schooling and education are sites for alternative futures, in Siaya's continuing present. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01