{"title":"Social and Spatial Mobility via Education: Managing Aspirations on Shifting Terrains","authors":"Jennifer Estes, Erica M. Larson","doi":"10.1111/aeq.70074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.70074","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This special issue examines the way that education relates to young people's aspirations for social and spatial mobility, which we understand as fundamentally intertwined. We propose the concept of “terrains” to capture the contours of inequality, hierarchies of value, and navigational responsiveness shaping their experiences. This framework advances a multidimensional approach to aspiration, highlights the unevenness shaping educational opportunity, and underscores that youth-centered ethnography is vital in investigating how young people experience these varied conditions.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47386,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Education Quarterly","volume":"57 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147585228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social and Spatial Mobility via Education: Managing Aspirations on Shifting Terrains","authors":"Jennifer Estes, Erica M. Larson","doi":"10.1111/aeq.70074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.70074","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This special issue examines the way that education relates to young people's aspirations for social and spatial mobility, which we understand as fundamentally intertwined. We propose the concept of “terrains” to capture the contours of inequality, hierarchies of value, and navigational responsiveness shaping their experiences. This framework advances a multidimensional approach to aspiration, highlights the unevenness shaping educational opportunity, and underscores that youth-centered ethnography is vital in investigating how young people experience these varied conditions.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47386,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Education Quarterly","volume":"57 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147585077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Hijab and the Uniform: A Situated Examination of Religious Accommodation","authors":"Mary Ann Chacko","doi":"10.1111/aeq.70075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.70075","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic research on a school-based cadet program in Kerala, India, this article complicates prevailing understandings of religious accommodation. It examines unofficial and tacit sartorial adjustments negotiated by cadets, families, and teachers to enable Muslim girls' participation in the cadet program. These practices demonstrate that religious accommodation is not a unilateral act of a secular state, but a reciprocal, pragmatic process shaped by everyday negotiations in specific socio-political contexts.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47386,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Education Quarterly","volume":"57 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147569229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Hijab and the Uniform: A Situated Examination of Religious Accommodation","authors":"Mary Ann Chacko","doi":"10.1111/aeq.70075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.70075","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic research on a school-based cadet program in Kerala, India, this article complicates prevailing understandings of religious accommodation. It examines unofficial and tacit sartorial adjustments negotiated by cadets, families, and teachers to enable Muslim girls' participation in the cadet program. These practices demonstrate that religious accommodation is not a unilateral act of a secular state, but a reciprocal, pragmatic process shaped by everyday negotiations in specific socio-political contexts.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47386,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Education Quarterly","volume":"57 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147569230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Talking Emotional Safety: School Leaders and Language in a Chicago School Safety Reform","authors":"Uma Blanchard, Alexander Koenig, Micere Keels","doi":"10.1111/aeq.70072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.70072","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the ways that school leaders used buzzwords when speaking about youth “emotional safety,” in a Chicago Public Schools safety reform aimed at reexamining the role of school policing. Drawing on observations from pandemic-era virtual school council meetings, we suggest a recognizable register of speech developed around the topic of emotional safety, which school leaders engaged to meet the political demands placed upon them by the district and the public.</p>","PeriodicalId":47386,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Education Quarterly","volume":"57 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aeq.70072","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147618112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mara Belacchi Livi, Paula Bosbach, Tara Brandl, Anika Höfler, Daniel Kruppa, Erik Ladurner, Christa Markom, Antonia Patzak, Maja Pavicsits, Leonie Puntaier
{"title":"Simmering in the Corridors: An Ethnographic Novella","authors":"Mara Belacchi Livi, Paula Bosbach, Tara Brandl, Anika Höfler, Daniel Kruppa, Erik Ladurner, Christa Markom, Antonia Patzak, Maja Pavicsits, Leonie Puntaier","doi":"10.1111/aeq.70070","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aeq.70070","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The ethnographic novella “Simmering in the Corridors” blends fiction and ethnography to reflect on academic life within a Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. It addresses institutional racism, colonial legacies, and power dynamics in academia. Through personal experiences and collective actions, it creates a nuanced portrayal of decolonization and reform processes within academic practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":47386,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Education Quarterly","volume":"57 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aeq.70070","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147618138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Talking Emotional Safety: School Leaders and Language in a Chicago School Safety Reform","authors":"Uma Blanchard, Alexander Koenig, Micere Keels","doi":"10.1111/aeq.70072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.70072","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the ways that school leaders used buzzwords when speaking about youth “emotional safety,” in a Chicago Public Schools safety reform aimed at reexamining the role of school policing. Drawing on observations from pandemic-era virtual school council meetings, we suggest a recognizable register of speech developed around the topic of emotional safety, which school leaders engaged to meet the political demands placed upon them by the district and the public.</p>","PeriodicalId":47386,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Education Quarterly","volume":"57 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aeq.70072","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147618111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Urbanization, Aid, and Education: The Mobility Risk of Chinese Women in the Hollowing Village","authors":"Yuchang Shi, Jinting Wu","doi":"10.1111/aeq.70073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.70073","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper examines the experience of rural minority girls and women in China's “hollowing out” countryside after massive transfer of rural labor to cities. We explore how urbanization, poverty alleviation initiatives, education, and patriarchal structure produce complex terrains through which marginalized rural females negotiate upward mobility against odds. Rural girls' and women's accounts reveal the “mobility risk” of a most vulnerable population, as well as their personal agency as they strive towards various aspirational futures.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47386,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Education Quarterly","volume":"57 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147637067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Urbanization, Aid, and Education: The Mobility Risk of Chinese Women in the Hollowing Village","authors":"Yuchang Shi, Jinting Wu","doi":"10.1111/aeq.70073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.70073","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper examines the experience of rural minority girls and women in China's “hollowing out” countryside after massive transfer of rural labor to cities. We explore how urbanization, poverty alleviation initiatives, education, and patriarchal structure produce complex terrains through which marginalized rural females negotiate upward mobility against odds. Rural girls' and women's accounts reveal the “mobility risk” of a most vulnerable population, as well as their personal agency as they strive towards various aspirational futures.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47386,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Education Quarterly","volume":"57 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147637066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Examination of Culture for Explaining Corporal Punishment: The Akan of Ghana in Perspective","authors":"Alex J. Wilson, Nana Aba Egyimah-Wilson","doi":"10.1111/aeq.70068","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aeq.70068","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Five years after the ban on corporal punishment in Ghanaian schools, many argue that the ban contravenes Ghanaian values and risks promoting indiscipline. Using critical ethnography and the Akan as a case study, we examined whether corporal punishment is attributable to indigenous culture. We found that its use is not wholly attributable to indigeneity. We recommended similar research to unearth the facts and address the problem in other jurisdictions to create safe school environments.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47386,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Education Quarterly","volume":"57 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147320916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}