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‘Going to school to become good people’ : examining aspirations to respectability and goodness among schoolchildren in urban Ethiopia
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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
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0907568216634065
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 | ||||||
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| 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 | ||||||
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| 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 | ||||||
| Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) |
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