Marshall, Lydia (2016) ‘Going to school to become good people’ : examining aspirations to respectability and goodness among schoolchildren in urban Ethiopia. Childhood: a global journal of child research, 23 (3). pp. 423-437. doi:10.1177/0907568216634065 ISSN 0907-5682.

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Abstract

This article examines the factors leading children in Hawassa, Ethiopia, to want to go to school in order ‘to become good people’. Drawing on a critical realist understanding of human agency, it argues that children’s motivations for going to school rested both on their ‘ultimate’, moral concerns and ‘ideas of the good’ and on external generative mechanisms that led them to identify participation in formal education as the key to becoming a ‘good’ person.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1501 Primary Education
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Children -- Education -- Ethiopia, Education -- Moral and ethical aspects, Education, Primary , School attendance
Journal or Publication Title:	Childhood: a global journal of child research
Publisher:	Sage Publications Ltd.
ISSN:	0907-5682
Official Date:	August 2016
Dates:	Date Event August 2016 Published 2016 Accepted
Volume:	23
Number:	3
Number of Pages:	14
Page Range:	pp. 423-437
DOI:	10.1177/0907568216634065
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit:	7 March 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access:	7 March 2016
Funder:	Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC)

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