Anthropological Perspectives on Student Futures Youth and the Politics of Possibility /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stambach, Amy (Editor), Hall, Kathleen D. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Anthropological Studies of Education
• Subjects: Education.; International education.; Comparative education.; Educational sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Social policy.; Education and state.; Sociology of Education.; International and Comparative Education.; Education Policy.; Children, Youth and Family Policy.
• Physical Description: IX, 178 p. 1 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9781137547866

This book examines diverse ways in which young people from around the world envision and prepare for their future education, careers, and families. The book features cutting-edge anthropological essays including ethnographic accounts of schooling in India, South Africa, the US, Bhutan, Tanzania, and Nigeria. Each chapter focuses on today’s generation of students and on students' use of education to create new possibilities for themselves. This volume will be of particular interest to practicing teachers and anthropologists and to readers who seek an ethnographic understanding of the world as seen through the eyes of students.