From Being Figured to Figuring the World: Identity Work in Young Girls’ Aspirations

IF 0.8 4区教育学 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Education and Urban Society Pub Date : 2022-03-18 DOI:10.1177/00131245211063881

Reema Mani

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Abstract

This article shows the significance of college-going aspiration in the future identities of young girls and the sources of such influence in their worlds. Using the figured worlds theory, the paper analyzes the process and implications of these young girls’ college-going aspirations. Drawing on interviews and observations with nineteen young girls living in urban India, the study shows that their response to the normative good girl figure gives them a chance of going to college. Their imagined identity is linked to values and communicative competence, and their figuring shows their investment in their own cultural transformation.

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从被关注到主宰世界:年轻女孩抱负中的身份工作

这篇文章展示了上大学的愿望对年轻女孩未来身份的意义，以及这种影响在她们的世界中的来源。本文运用图形世界理论，分析了这些年轻女孩的大学志向的形成过程及其影响。根据对19名生活在印度城市的年轻女孩的采访和观察，这项研究表明，她们对标准好女孩身材的反应给了她们上大学的机会。他们想象中的身份与价值观和交际能力有关，他们的形象显示了他们对自己文化转型的投资。

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3.00

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期刊介绍： Education and Urban Society (EUS) is a multidisciplinary journal that examines the role of education as a social institution in an increasingly urban and multicultural society. To this end, EUS publishes articles exploring the functions of educational institutions, policies, and processes in light of national concerns for improving the environment of urban schools that seek to provide equal educational opportunities for all students. EUS welcomes articles based on practice and research with an explicit urban context or component that examine the role of education from a variety of perspectives including, but not limited to, those based on empirical analyses, action research, and ethnographic perspectives as well as those that view education from philosophical, historical, policy, and/or legal points of view.lyses.