- Title
- Indigenous Fijian female pupils and career choice: explaining generational gender reproduction
- Creator
- Nilan, Pam
- Relation
- Asia Pacific Journal of Education Vol. 29, Issue 1, p. 29-43
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02188790802655031
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- This paper examines aspects of the school-to-work transition process for high-achieving indigenous Fijian young women using selective data from a wider study of school-to-work transitions conducted in 2005. It appears that traditional and colonial understandings of the role of Fijian women still shape even high-achieving girls' career and life options; these are expressed through their subject choices at school and their narrow career aspirations. While the social reproduction mechanisms of schools are evident, families and communities are also implicated. High-achieving girls still tend to emulate the career choices of older women in their families and communities, even in the current context of a marked lessening of labour market opportunities for the time-honoured “white-collar” occupations of teaching, nursing and public service work. Some provisional interpretations, looking towards productive interventions at school, community and church level, of this phenomenon are offered.
- Subject
- Fiji; school-to-work transition; gender; generational reproduction
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/806919
- Identifier
- uon:7254
- Identifier
- ISSN:0218-8791
- Language
- eng
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