Playing the game High school students’ mediation of their educational subjectivities across dissonant fields
This chapter draws on my research in rural and urban working-class environments in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, and a Focus School located in a middle-class area in Cape Town. The chapter focuses on the navigational practices of four historically disadvantaged students who accomplished...
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| Published in | The Educational Practices and Pathways of South African Students Across Power-Marginalised Spaces p. 53 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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South Africa
African Sun Media
03.08.2018
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| Edition | 1 |
| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | This chapter draws on my research in rural and urban working-class environments in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, and a Focus School located in a middle-class area in Cape Town. The chapter focuses on the navigational practices of four historically disadvantaged students who accomplished their education ‘on the move’ between their working-class domestic environment and the dissonant terrain of the Focus School situated in a middle-class suburb. The discussion presented focuses on how selected black and coloured students from rural and urban working-class areas in the Western Cape adapted, shifted and established their educational subjectivities while attending a |
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| ISBN: | 1928357881 9781928357889 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctv1nzfxzq.9 |