Enacting aspirational rural schooling towards sustainable futures

Exploring students’ ethnographic imaginations implications for place-based pedagogy

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ID12352532
AutoresMoses Ackah Anlimachie (0000-0001-5319-5524, University of South Australia, autor correspondente), Samuel Badu (0000-0003-3626-8001, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology), Daniel Yaw Acheampong (University of Oslo)
Ano2022
Volume31
Fascículo3
Páginas155-178
Data de publicação2022-09-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoRural Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1037-1656 • E-ISSN: 2204-0536
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10371656.2023.2171842
OpenAlexW4319975585
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas30

Place-based pedagogy (PBP) has become an emerging strategy for improving educational relevance for low-income communities. This article investigates children's learning aspirations to motivate broader theoretical discussion about opportunities for enacting PBP for rural schooling success in Ghana. Using an ethnographic case study design, collaboration with a rural school supported data collection on children's home cultural capital shaping teachers’ pedagogy. Using PBP theorisations, thematic analysis of qualitative data found rural students’ aspirations were less diversified and heavily shaped by their immediate environment. The article concludes that inspiring higher aspirations in the rural children researched would require geographically sensitive teachers who stretch their learners’ inculcated images about their community into global opportunities. The article proposes integration of Ghanaian rural indigenous place-sensitive, apprenticeship-based, collectivist learning approaches and traditionally valued skills, through PBP, as a key re-positioning strategy to improve educational outcomes for Ghanaian rural children through greater harnessing of home cultural capital

Collectivism · Cultural capital · Ethnography · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative property · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Thematic analysis · Education Systems and Policy · Indigenous and Place-Based Education · Outdoor and Experiential Education

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