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Education systems aspiration and learning in remote rural settings

Funder: Economic & Social Research Council
Duration: June 2016 - June 2018

People

Name Telephone Email Office
Professor Nicola Ansell Professor Nicola Ansell
Professor - Human Geography
(Principal investigator)
T: +44 (0)1895 266085
E: nicola.ansell@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 266085 nicola.ansell@brunel.ac.uk Marie Jahoda 204
Professor Peggy Froerer Professor Peggy Froerer
Professor of Anthropology
T: +44 (0)1895 265456
E: peggy.froerer@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 265456 peggy.froerer@brunel.ac.uk Marie Jahoda 143

Outputs

Ansell, N., Froerer, P. and Huijsmans, R. (2022) 'Young People’s Aspirations in an Uncertain World: Taking Control of the Future?'. Sociological Research Online, 27 (4). pp. 795 - 802. ISSN: 1360-7804 Open Access Link

Journal article

Ansell, N., Mwathunga, E., Hajdu, F., Robson, E., Hlabana, T., van Blerk, L. and et al. (2022) 'Ethical principles, social harm and the economic relations of research: negotiating ethics committee requirements and community expectations in ethnographic research in rural Malawi'. Qualitative Inquiry, 29 (6). pp. 725 - 736. ISSN: 1077-8004 Open Access Link

Journal article

Ansell, N. and Dungey, C. (2022) 'Schooling young people for the Anthropocene? Land, livestock and learning in rural Lesotho', in Kraftl, P., Kelly, P., Carbajo Padilla, D., Noonan, M., Ribeiro, AS., MacDonald, D. and et al. (eds.) Young People and Stories for the Anthropocene. London : Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 10: 1-5381-5364-5. ISBN 13: 978-1-5381-5364-2. Open Access Link

Book chapter

Froerer, P., Ansell, N. and Huijsmans, R. (2022) 'Sacrifice, suffering and hope: education, aspiration and young people’s affective orientations to the future'. Ethnography and Education, 17 (3). pp. 179 - 185. ISSN: 1745-7823 Open Access Link

Journal article

Froerer, P. and Dost, A. (2021) 'Education, Aspiration and aage badhna: The Role of Schooling in Facilitating ‘Forward Movement’ in Rural Chhattisgarh, India'. European Journal of Development Research, 33 (1). pp. 109 - 129. ISSN: 0957-8811 Open Access Link

Journal article

Froerer, P. (2021) 'Poverty and Education', in Allen, T. and Thomas, A. (eds.) Poverty and Development in the 21st Century. Oxford : Oxford University Press. pp. 145 - 165. ISBN 13: 978-0-19-956324-1.

Book chapter

Ansell, N., Froerer, P., Huijsmans, R., Dungey, C., Dost, A. and Piti. (2020) 'Educating 'surplus population': uses and abuses of aspiration in the rural peripheries of a globalising world'. Fennia - International Journal of Geography, 198 (1-2). pp. 17 - 38. ISSN: 0015-0010 Open Access Link

Journal article

Huijsmans, R., Ansell, N. and Froerer, P. (2020) 'Introduction: Development, Young People, and the Social Production of Aspirations'. European Journal of Development Research, 33 (1). pp. 1 - 15. ISSN: 0957-8811 Open Access Link

Journal article

Dungey, CE. and Ansell, N. (2020) '‘I go to school to survive’: Facing physical, moral and economic uncertainties in rural Lesotho'. Children's Geographies, 18 (6). pp. 614 - 628. ISSN: 1473-3285 Open Access Link

Journal article

Dungey, C. and Ansell, N. (2020) '‘Not all of us can be nurses’: proposing and resisting entrepreneurship education in rural Lesotho'. Sociological Research Online: an electronic journal, 27 (4). pp. 823 - 841. ISSN: 1360-7804 Open Access Link

Journal article

Ansell, N., Froerer, P. and Huijsmans, R. (2018) 'Rural children's access to the content of education'. Place of publication: Brunel. Available at: https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Projects/pdf/Education-aspiration/Policy-brief-Content-of-Education-1.pdf.Open Access Link

Report

Ansell, N., Froerer, P. and Huijsmans, R. (2018) 'The roles of rural teachers'. Place of publication: Brunel University London. Available at: https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Projects/pdf/Education-aspiration/Policy-brief-Roles-of-rural-teachers.pdf.Open Access Link

Report

Ansell, N., Froerer, P. and Huijsmans, R. (2018) 'Innovating in rural education'. Place of publication: Brunel University London. Available at: https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Projects/pdf/Education-aspiration/Policy-brief-Innovating.pdf.Open Access Link

Report

Ansell, N., Froerer, P. and Huijsmans, R. (2018) 'The representation of occupations in school'. Place of publication: Brunel. Available at: https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Projects/pdf/Education-aspiration/Policy-brief-Representing-Occupations-1.pdf.Open Access Link

Report