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International and Comparative Education

Vilma Seeberg

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In Their Own Words_What Do Chinese Village Girls Value And Gain From Schooling- 96-311-1-Pb.Pdf, Vilma Seeberg, Shujuan Luo Dec 2015

In Their Own Words_What Do Chinese Village Girls Value And Gain From Schooling- 96-311-1-Pb.Pdf, Vilma Seeberg, Shujuan Luo

Vilma Seeberg

In remote valleys and plateaus of western China, village girls have been pushing their way into schools. Despite extreme family poverty, the vulnerabilities and low status of being a girl, the isolation of their villages, as well as the deplorable conditions of their schooling, girls persist in seeking an education. We examine forces of change where minimal human rights, minimal social justice,and multiple deprivations of freedomwere the norm. We brought to light village girls’ capabilities and their potential for gaining individual and collective social justice. Their schooling provided all the village girls with identity, legitimacy, visibility and respect …

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Empowerment Of Excluded Girls In Schooling Exploring Capabilities And Social Justice Change In China, Vilma Seeberg Dec 2014

Empowerment Of Excluded Girls In Schooling Exploring Capabilities And Social Justice Change In China, Vilma Seeberg

Vilma Seeberg

Despite extremely poor odds at the margins of China’s break-neck industrialization and left behind in remote China, village girls have nevertheless been struggling valiantly just to stay in middle and possibly high school. This chapter is informed by more than 10 years of observational studies of 73 daughters of one such village
Arguing that an elaborated framework that focuses the Human Development Capability Approach on empowerment capabilities can explain the choice for schooling under these conditions and can locate drivers of social change, the chapter presents 28 adolescent village girls’ perceptions of their changed gender identities, roles, and life trajectories, …

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Girls’ Schooling Empowerment In Rural China: Identifying Capabilities And Social Change In The Village, Vilma Seeberg Oct 2014

Girls’ Schooling Empowerment In Rural China: Identifying Capabilities And Social Change In The Village, Vilma Seeberg

Vilma Seeberg

This study is explicitly anchored in an emerging grounded paradigm, the human development capability approach, and proposes its elaboration using empowerment as a perspective, in this case, on the education of excluded village girls. The person-centered development imperative of the empowerment-capability approach provided the conceptual tools that brought together a holistic observation of social location, subjectivities, agency, achievements and transformative change. Seeking to explain village girls' demand for schooling, the work identifies intangible and instrumental capabilities often unrecognized and "their indirect role through influencing social change" (Sen 1999, 296) contributing grounded findings on the concept of empowerment. Findings further show …

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The Demoralization Of Teachers: Crisis In A Rural School In China - Book Review, Vilma Seeberg Jul 2014

The Demoralization Of Teachers: Crisis In A Rural School In China - Book Review, Vilma Seeberg

Vilma Seeberg

Author Dan Wang describes how the daily experiences of students, teachers, administrators, and parents are shaped and impacted by national education reforms that are an ill-fit with local school conditions and student's educational needs. Teachers are scrambling to get out of what they see as a trap that stifles their aspirations and robs their lives of meaning.

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