A Cultural Dialectics of Generational Change: The View from Contemporary Africa

Autor/in	Cole, Jennifer
Titel	A Cultural Dialectics of Generational Change: The View from Contemporary Africa
Quelle	In: Review of Research in Education, 35 (2011) 1, S.60-88 (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0091-732X
DOI	10.3102/0091732X10391371
Schlagwörter	Social Status; Young Adults; Foreign Countries; Employment Opportunities; Generational Differences; Economic Factors; Educational Finance; Access to Education; Social Influences; War; Conflict; Youth; Urban Areas; Cultural Influences; Social Capital; Crime; Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialer Status; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Ausland; Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance; Ökonomischer Faktor; Bildungsfonds; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Sozialer Einfluss; Krieg; Konflikt; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Urban area; Stadtregion; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Sozialkapital; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Afrika
Abstract	Young Africans born in the 1980s and early 1990s enjoy neither the same education nor the same employment opportunities as their fathers and mothers. In the past 20 years economic inequality between Africa and the rest of the world has increased. In the context of the new economic conditions created in part by economic liberalization, national education systems can no longer provide young people with the adult social status that they desire. Global consumer capitalism and new technologies spread their influences ever deeper into African daily life, while competition for scarce resources and civil conflict fuels social disruption and war. These circumstances compel young people to forge new paths to the future and new ways to be adult. This article considers recent work on youth in Africa, and particularly urban Africa, to argue for a view of generational change as characterized by a conjuncture between young people coming of age, on the one hand, and existing social, cultural, and economic arrangements on the other--what the author is calling a dialect of generational change. The author's conception of generational change draws from, and elaborates on, both Karl Mannheim's (1927/1993) seminal ideas on the nature of generations and the practice theory of Pierre Bourdieu (1977, 1992). (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10