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"You Can't Oppress Yourself": Negotiating the Meaning of Opportunity in Post-Apartheid South Africa.
Peer reviewedBempechat, Janine; Abrahams, Salie – Teachers College Record, 1999
Investigated how black South-African 11th graders conceptualized their outlooks on the past and future. Analysis of in-depth interviews showed that, despite having come of age in a society that was designed to oppress, students were committed to high educational goals, were determined to seize opportunities they perceived were available to them,…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Apartheid, Black Students
