Anthropological Perspectives on Student Futures

1. Introduction
Amy Stambach

Part I. Aspirations

2. Aspiration as Capacity and Compulsion: The Futures of Urban Middle-Class Youth in India
Amanda Gilbertson

3. “Too Good to Teach”: Bhutanese Students and a Hierarchy of Aspirations
Dolma Roder

4. A “Golden Generation”? Framing the Future Among Senior Students at Gülen-Inspired Schools in Urban Tanzania
Kristina Dohrn

5. Aspiration, Piety, and Traditionalism Among Indonesian Islamic Boarding School Girls
Claire-Marie Hefner

Part II. Realizations

6. Schooling in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Hopes, Struggles, and Contested Responsibilities
Oliver Pattenden

7. Betrayed Futures: Uneconomic Schooling in Liberalizing Kerala (India)
Leya Mathew

8. Practice for the Future: The Aspirational Politics of Nigerian Students
Krystal Strong

9. Hopeful Engagement: The Sentimental Education of University-Sponsored Service Learning
M. Mackenzie Cramblit

Part III. Afterword

10. Reflections on Student Futures and Political Possibilities: An Afterword
Kathleen D. Hall

Keywords: Education, Sociology of Education, International and Comparative Education, Education Policy, Children, Youth and Family Policy