From High Skill to High School
Illustrating the Process of Deskilling Immigrants Through Reader’s Theatre and Institutional Ethnography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2385654 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bonnie Slade (0000-0001-9737-7004, University of Stirling) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 401-413 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1077800412439526 |
| OpenAlex | W2063844720 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 6 |
From High Skill to High School details the experiences of immigrant professionals in an adult education employment program. This research reveals that immigrants with graduate degrees and years of international work experience are put through curriculum designed for adolescents with limited work experience, and collectively perform more than 1.92 million hours of unpaid work annually in both community-based organizations and for-profit companies. In this mixed-method research project combining institutional ethnography with Reader's Theatre, the Reader's Theatre serves as a powerful medium to detail the process of deskilling. While Reader's Theatre complements the institutional ethnographic analysis by vividly bringing the data to life, representational issues emerge in combining the two approaches. For the playwright, the Reader's Theatre may seem overly detailed and less aesthetically pleasing. These details, however, are necessary to the analysis as they are vital clues to the social organization of power for the institutional ethnographer
Curriculum · Deskilling · Ethnography · Immigration · Media studies · Pedagogy · Political science · Power (physics · Public relations · Sociology · Work (physics · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Engineering · Law · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
Institutional Ethnography as a Method of Inquiry
Deskilling and labour market barriers among skilled racialized immigrants in British Columbia
Complicating the entrepreneurial self
Recognition of immigrant professionals’ prior learning
Entry to hospitality careers for women and beyond
Towards a postcolonial politics of appearance
Location and visa‐category determinants of naturalization in Australia
Navigating transition to work
| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |