ERIC Number: EJ1430370
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0142-5692
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Rethinking Young People's Aspirations in Times of Crisis: Stories of Futures from a De-Industrialising City
Peter Kelly; James Goring; Meave Noonan; Seth Brown
British Journal of Sociology of Education, v45 n3 p458-474 2024
In this paper -- where we will draw on data from a small scale longitudinal study of young people's post-COVID aspirations and sense of their futures in a de-industrialising city -- we will suggest that Appadurai's (2004) ideas about the 'capacity to aspire' encourages us to shift our focus from the 'aspirations' of individual young people to think, instead, about the different resources that might be at play in shaping a capacity to aspire. Departing from the detailed stories of two of the young people who participated in this project, we will argue that critical, post-humanist and futures oriented ontologies offer productive possibilities for reimagining the 'promise of education' in relation to young people's aspirations, their dreams and hopes, fears, anxieties and despair that emerge from the "thick of social life" (Appadurai, 2004) in which young people live, imagine who they are, and what they might become.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 11, COVID-19, Pandemics, Academic Aspiration, Student Educational Objectives, Student Attitudes, Evaluative Thinking
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education; Grade 11
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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