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How Descent-Based Hierarchies and Youth Culture Shape Secondary School Engagement in Senegal
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Newman, Anneke – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2021
Research on the effects of mass schooling on social cleavages in Africa ignores descent-based hierarchies despite their affecting 218 million people on the continent. In contrast, I show how pursuit of social mobility and honor to overcome descent-based discrimination underpinned Haalpulaar parents' and youths' engagement with secondary school in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student School Relationship, Parent School Relationship