Trans-local habitus : high school students mediation of their educational success at a Focus School

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dc.contributor.advisorFataar, Aslamen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorDomingo-Salie, Nazlien_ZA
dc.contributor.otherStellenbosch University. Faculty of Education. Dept. Education Policy Studiesen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-22T13:11:16Z
dc.date.available2016-12-22T13:11:16Z
dc.date.issued2016-10
dc.descriptionThesis (DEd)--Stellenbosch University, 2016en_ZA
dc.description.abstractENGLISH ABSTRACT : Against the backdrop of school reform in South Africa, this dissertation analyses the practices of selected mobile students who accomplished their education ‘on the move’ between their working-class domestic environment and the dissonant terrain of the Focus School situated in a middle-class suburb. This study describes the navigational practices of the four students in their establishment of a successful educational path. Drawing on Bourdieu’s concepts of practice, habitus and field, augmented by Urry’s theory of mobility, this dissertation discusses the shifts and changes that the four students made as they moved between their domestic environments and the Focus School in order to access quality schooling. This study is based on qualitative data from in-depth, semi-structured interviews which are used to illustrate the navigation practices of the four students as they develop successful educational subjectivities – a trans-local habitus –as they move from their domestic locations to the new terrain of the Focus School. The study uses the analytical lens of trans-locality to explore how the four students shifted and adapted their educational subjectivities, developed social competency and established subjectivities that enabled them to become successful students at the Focus School. I argue that it is possible for historically disadvantaged, rural and township students to adapt to and meet the academic and behavioural standards of a new school context in the middle-class environment, and that they do this by establishing a trans-local habitus. Acquiring a trans-local habitus enables them to successfully shift and adapt their subjectivity ‘on the move’ across different contexts. A successful trans-local habitus is thus one that allows the individual, via their navigation across different field contexts, to successfully change or adapt their dispositions to the rules and regularities of the new field context. This study illustrates, therefore, the navigational bases upon which the four students transact their school-going experiences, in effect shifting their ‘habitus on the move’, as they figure out ways of achieving school success.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractAFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING : Geen Afrikaanse opsomming geskikbaar nieaf_ZA
dc.description.versionDoctoral
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/100065
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : Stellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.rights.holderStellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.subjectHigh school children -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectBourdieu, Pierre -- 1930-2002en_ZA
dc.subjectUCTDen_ZA
dc.subjectFocus Schools -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectUrry, John Richard -- 1946-2016en_ZA
dc.subjectHabitus (sociology)en_ZA
dc.subjectMobility theoryen_ZA
dc.subjectHigh schools -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.titleTrans-local habitus : high school students mediation of their educational success at a Focus Schoolen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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