Ego, balanceandsophistication

Experiences of schooling as self-making strategies in middle-class Kochi

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ID4937792
AuthorsDavid Sancho (0000-0002-3037-7701, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume49
Issue1
Pages26-51
Publication date2015-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueContributions to Indian Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0069-9659 • E-ISSN: 0069-9667
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0069966714560490
OpenAlexW2076369621
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited24

This article examines the relationship between private schooling and the middle classes in urban India. It complicates the argument that private schools have become spaces in which young people come to see themselves less as representatives of one ethnic or caste community and more as indices of their own family's economic standing and as members of a class group. I argue that a closer look at the way in which students experience and narrativise private schooling reveals a much less straightforward process. Schools, I argue, are mobilised by youth as flexible tools in complex and competing strategies to construct a middle social space for themselves. The article seeks to address the lack of research on the complex and severely contested processes of transformation of the selves implicated in strategies of urban educational opportunities

Argument (complex analysis · Balance (ability · Caste · Construct (python library · Ethnic group · Middle class · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Sophistication · Space (punctuation) · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities · Law · Psychology

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