Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Introduction
CHAPTER 1: Student Futures and the Politics of Possibility Amy Stambach
Part One - Aspirations
CHAPTER 2: Aspiration as Capacity and Compulsion: The Futures of Urban Middle-Class Youth in India Amanda Gilbertson
CHAPTER 3: "Too Good to Teach" Bhutanese Students and the Hierarchy of Aspirations Dolma Roder
CHAPTER 4: A "Golden Generation"? Framing the Future among Senior Students at G len-inspired Schools in Urban Tanzania Kristina Dohrn
CHAPTER 5: Aspiration, Piety, and Traditionalism among Indonesian Islamic Boarding School Girls Claire-Marie Hefner
Part Two - Realizations
CHAPTER 6: Schooling in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Hopes, Struggles, and Contested Responsibilities Oliver Pattenden
CHAPTER 7: Betrayed Futures: Uneconomic Schooling in Liberalizing Kerala (India) Leya Mathew
CHAPTER 8: Practice for the Future: The Aspirational Politics of Nigerian Students
Krystal Strong
CHAPTER 9: Hopeful Engagement: The Sentimental Education of University-Sponsored Service-Learning M. Mackenzie Cramblit
Part Three - Afterword
CHAPTER 10: Reflections on Student Futures and Political Possibilities: An Afterword Kathleen D. Hall Synopsis
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.