'Not All of Us Can Be Nurses': Proposing and Resisting Entrepreneurship Education in Rural Lesotho
'Not All of Us Can Be Nurses': Proposing and Resisting Entrepreneurship Education in Rural Lesotho
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10.1177/1360780420944967
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发表时间：
2020-08-10
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1.6
通讯作者：
Ansell, Nicola
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作者：
Dungey, Claire;Ansell, Nicola
莱索托的教育，就像世界上许多地方一样，历史上一直为“更美好的未来”做出承诺。在学校取得成功和取得学术证书有望在正规经济中有一个安全的未来。随着入学率的提高和青年失业率的上升，这种未来对大多数青年来说是虚幻的。2009年，莱索托推出了一项全新的课程，旨在向青年人灌输创业技能和态度，使他们能够在日益不确定的世界中建设自己的未来。基于9个月的民族志实地考察，在两所小学及其周围的农村社区，我们跟踪新课程是如何在学校提供，以及它是如何干预儿童的愿望。尽管这些课程旨在帮助他们为在非正规经济中谋生做好准备，但年轻的巴什特还是珍视护士、教师、警官或士兵等有薪工作的安全感。我们框架这种矛盾的概念doxic和习惯的愿望，得出的结论是，由于学校提供创业教育的方式，它既不能取代长期的doxic愿望的职业生涯，并未能从事与年轻人的习惯性期望的农村生计。
Education in Lesotho, as in much of the world, has historically held out the promise of a 'better future'. Success in school and the achievement of academic credentials were expected to lead to a secure future in the formal economy. With increasing school enrolment and growing youth unemployment, such futures are now illusory for most youth. In 2009, Lesotho introduced a radical new curriculum that aims to instil in young people skills and attitudes for entrepreneurship, enabling them to build their own futures in an increasingly uncertain world. Based on 9-months' ethnographic fieldwork in two primary schools and their surrounding rural communities, we trace how the new curriculum is being delivered in schools and how it is intervening in children's aspirations. Despite lessons intended to prepare them for livelihoods in the informal economy, young Basotho prize the security of a salaried job as a nurse, teacher, police officer, or soldier. We frame this contradiction in relation to concepts of doxic and habituated aspirations, concluding that due to the way schools deliver entrepreneurship education it both fails to displace long-standing doxic aspirations to professional careers, and fails to engage with young people's habituated expectations of rural livelihoods.