TY - JOUR
T1 - Negotiating individualist and collectivist futures
T2 - Emerging subjectivities and social forms in Papua New Guinean high schools
AU - Demerath, Peter
PY - 2003/6
Y1 - 2003/6
N2 - This article explains line academic disengagement of a critical mass of high school students in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, as resulting in part from emerging personal subjectivities and new social networks. Based on a year of ethnographic research in 1994-95, the article describes the authority these young people attributed to their own perceptions of the limited opportunity structures facing them and to the idealized village-based egalitarian student identity being circulated through peer networks. As such, it illuminates the educational implications of youth culture, and demonstrates how local and global processes are mediated through the social fields of high schools.
AB - This article explains line academic disengagement of a critical mass of high school students in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, as resulting in part from emerging personal subjectivities and new social networks. Based on a year of ethnographic research in 1994-95, the article describes the authority these young people attributed to their own perceptions of the limited opportunity structures facing them and to the idealized village-based egalitarian student identity being circulated through peer networks. As such, it illuminates the educational implications of youth culture, and demonstrates how local and global processes are mediated through the social fields of high schools.
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U2 - 10.1525/aeq.2003.34.2.136
DO - 10.1525/aeq.2003.34.2.136
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0038724123
SN - 0161-7761
VL - 34
SP - 136
EP - 157
JO - Anthropology and Education Quarterly
JF - Anthropology and Education Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -