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Standardized individuality: cosmopolitanism and educational decision-making in an Atlantic Canadian rural community
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Corbett, MJ, Standardized individuality: cosmopolitanism and educational decision-making in an Atlantic Canadian rural community, Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 40, (2) pp. 223-237. ISSN 0305-7925 (2010) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2010 British Association for International and Comparative Education
DOI: doi:10.1080/03057920903546088
Abstract
With the rise of network society, consumerism, individualization, globalization
and contemporary change forces, students are pressured to both perform well in
standardized academic assessments while at the same time constructing a non-standard,
unique project of the self. I argue that this generates a particular set of
place-based tensions for rural students. The paper analyses data from a three-year
study of youth educational decision-making to explore the tensions between place based
habitus and the mobility imperative in formal schooling.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | cosmopolitanism, rural education, individualization, aspirations, educational decision-making |
| Research Division: | Education |
| Research Group: | Education Systems |
| Research Field: | Continuing and Community Education |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding Knowledge in Education |
| Author: | Corbett, MJ (Professor Michael Corbett) |
| ID Code: | 100555 |
| Year Published: | 2010 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 8 |
| Deposited By: | Education |
| Deposited On: | 2015-05-20 |
| Last Modified: | 2015-06-17 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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