Ahmed, Ayisha (2024) 'Brilla boy!: Educated masculinity, hope and future-making in a Ghanaian senior high school.' Ethnography and Education. pp. 1-18. (Forthcoming)
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Abstract
This paper examines the significance of Ghana’s National Science and Maths Quiz (the NSMQ) drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a secondary school in Ghana (known as Brilliant Academy) conducted between 2021–2022. Using the concepts of hope and aspiration this paper seeks to explore how the NSMQ serves as a vehicle for hope. It begins with a historical lens, examining how the pedagogical practices laid down by missionaries now in place at Brilliant Academy serve to cultivate the type of educated person promoted by the quiz show, that of the ‘brilla boy’. This figure is widely respected within the school and as such students eagerly aspire to take part in the quiz. I also suggest that the celebration of maths and science in the quiz makes the NSMQ bridge together ‘old’ and ‘new’ hopes attached to education, and science and maths in particular, evident in Kwame Nkrumah’s vision for postcolonial Ghana.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Keywords: | National Science and MathsQuiz; schooling; Ghana;aspiration; hope; masculinity |
| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > Department of Anthropology & Sociology |
| ISSN: | 17457831 |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2024.2423285 |
| SWORD Depositor: | JISC Publications Router |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Nov 2024 08:03 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/42958 |
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