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Researching Power-Marginalized Young People’s Aspirations and Strategies Toward Social-Educational Futures in Difficult Times

Sun, April 6, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Convention Center, Floor: 100 Level, 120C

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium draws on multiple research projects in schools and communities of power-marginalized Australian regions. Together the papers make a case for research that appreciates young people’s aspirations towards futures, and associated educational strategies, as complex formational processes. Looking for new-generational ways in which young people read the world, the projects contextualize aspirations in locality; in globalizing forces that permeate the local; and in social-structural power relations. Analyzing aspirations as processes of identity work, including emotional and imaginative labors, the papers diagnose ‘climates’ for aspiring: senses of time, space and mood among young people who engage historically difficult conditions. Finally, the papers conceptualize curriculum for resourcing the agency of students, teachers, families and communities to pursue desirable and possible aspirations.

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