Children, social class, and education shifting identities in Fiji by Karen J. Brison

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Culture, mind and societyPublisher: New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan 2014Description: x, 202 p. 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781137472267 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370.99611 23
LOC classification:
  • LC206.F45 B75 2014
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction: Social Class and Mass Preschool Education in Fiji2. Kindergartens and Culture in Fiji3. Nurturing Multicultural Pluralism4. Producing a New Middle Class5. Becoming Very Good School Children6. Gender, Race, and Social Class: Shifting Social Categories7. Hierarchy and Friendship Epilogue.
Summary: "Class-based self-perception is a rising issue worldwide. In Fiji, a Pacific Island nation where ethnic divisions between indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijian descendants of indentured servants from India have been historically predominant, the production of social class-based identities is primarily done through mass preschool education, rather than within the family unit. Based on participant-observation in kindergartens in Suva Fiji, this book shows that Suva kindergartens instill social class-specific ideas about self and society. Teachers have different goals depending on the professional background of the families who attended their schools while students create friendships based on shared experience of toys, gender roles, and mass media"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "Children, Social Class, and Education: Shifting Identities in Fiji examines the production of social class based identities through mass preschool education in Fiji, a Pacific Island nation where ethnic divisions between indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijian descendents of indentured servants from India have been historically predominant. Based on participant-observation in eleven kindergartens in Suva Fiji, Children, Social Class, and Education shows that Suva kindergartens were instilling social class-specific ideas about self and society"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index

Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction: Social Class and Mass Preschool Education in Fiji2. Kindergartens and Culture in Fiji3. Nurturing Multicultural Pluralism4. Producing a New Middle Class5. Becoming Very Good School Children6. Gender, Race, and Social Class: Shifting Social Categories7. Hierarchy and Friendship Epilogue.

"Class-based self-perception is a rising issue worldwide. In Fiji, a Pacific Island nation where ethnic divisions between indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijian descendants of indentured servants from India have been historically predominant, the production of social class-based identities is primarily done through mass preschool education, rather than within the family unit. Based on participant-observation in kindergartens in Suva Fiji, this book shows that Suva kindergartens instill social class-specific ideas about self and society. Teachers have different goals depending on the professional background of the families who attended their schools while students create friendships based on shared experience of toys, gender roles, and mass media"-- Provided by publisher.

"Children, Social Class, and Education: Shifting Identities in Fiji examines the production of social class based identities through mass preschool education in Fiji, a Pacific Island nation where ethnic divisions between indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijian descendents of indentured servants from India have been historically predominant. Based on participant-observation in eleven kindergartens in Suva Fiji, Children, Social Class, and Education shows that Suva kindergartens were instilling social class-specific ideas about self and society"-- Provided by publisher.