Schooling and the regulation of female subjectivity: choosing the "right" path through senior years /
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2011
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Yuen, Rosalina Mu Lan,
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In Australia in recent decades girls’ increased school retention has paved the way for university entrance, especially in the context of the massive expansion of the Australian higher education system. Girls who take up university places are typically seen as the success stories in broad analyses of current education. Girls’ choices in terms of senior school subjects and post-school careers constitute the focus of this investigation. This thesis examines the senior school choice-making processes instrumental to post- school educational destinations. The particular focus is on the experience of senior secondary girls in the formation of their aspirations for post-school education. As late modern social agents, the girls are faced with new expectations to make choices and new requirements to plan their lives in 'new times'. Drawing on a combined literature on the risk society, Bourdieu's theory and Foucault‘s concept of governmentality, this thesis argues that senior schooling processes induct students into choice-making and planning their lives through the seemingly innocuous task of making subject choices with far reaching consequences within a tightly regulated curriculum where not all subjects carry equal value.
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University of South Australia. School of Education.
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School of Education
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Thesis (PhdEducation)--University of South Australia, 2011.
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Copyright 2011 Rosalina Mu Lan Yuen. This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Australia 3.0 licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/)
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xiii, 302 leaves :
illustrations (some colour).
Includes bibliographic references.
illustrations (some colour).
Includes bibliographic references.
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