Qualitative Inquiry into the Everyday Experiences of Secondary School Students within Significant Spheres of their Lifeworld: Family, Friends and School – Narratives from Lahore
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description: Narratives of everyday experiences offer valuable insight into the social and material world that people inhabit. Exploratory research based on the voice of young people has the potential to offer insight into their lived realities. However, research based on first-hand accounts of young people from the Global South is often rare. Situated in the interdisciplinary field of Global South Youth Studies, this study aims to understand the everyday experiences of a few young people from Lahore. Focusing on young people in secondary schools, this exploratory qualitative inquiry is based on interviews with 19 girls and 15 boys, ranging in ages from 14 years to 18 years. Taking into account the contextual realities, this research includes a diverse set of students studying in a range of schools for Matric and GCSE. These schools vary in school ownership, fee, and location. Of these 34 total participants, 16 are studying for Matric and 18 are studying for GCSE. This research uses Schutz’s (1970) lifeworld for conceptualising the material and social world of everyday experiences. The lifeworld is spatiotemporal, includes a variety of social relations, and experiences occurring in this world of everyday life are informed by knowledge. This study discusses these interrelated features of the lifeworld by drawing on writings that discuss the Global South as a spatial-material context; the spheres of social relations of secondary school students; and the various meanings underpinning experiences as a result of cosmopolitanisation. These writings support the aim of this study: understanding the lifeworld of secondary school students in urban Lahore by focusing on their everyday experiences within the spheres of school, family and friends. Interviews with a diverse young people support this exploratory study in gaining insight into a variety of everyday experiences of use of spaces in school and experiences with teachers, school administration and peers. Additionally, this study offe…
abstract: Narratives of everyday experiences offer valuable insight into the social and material world that people inhabit. Exploratory research based on the voice of young people has the potential to offer insight into their lived realities. However, research based on first-hand accounts of young people from the Global South is often rare. Situated in the interdisciplinary field of Global South Youth Studies, this study aims to understand the everyday experiences of a few young people from Lahore. Focusing on young people in secondary schools, this exploratory qualitative inquiry is based on interviews with 19 girls and 15 boys, ranging in ages from 14 years to 18 years. Taking into account the contextual realities, this research includes a diverse set of students studying in a range of schools for Matric and GCSE. These schools vary in school ownership, fee, and location. Of these 34 total participants, 16 are studying for Matric and 18 are studying for GCSE. This research uses Schutz’s (1970) lifeworld for conceptualising the material and social world of everyday experiences. The lifeworld is spatiotemporal, includes a variety of social relations, and experiences occurring in this world of everyday life are informed by knowledge. This study discusses these interrelated features of the lifeworld by drawing on writings that discuss the Global South as a spatial-material context; the spheres of social relations of secondary school students; and the various meanings underpinning experiences as a result of cosmopolitanisation. These writings support the aim of this study: understanding the lifeworld of secondary school students in urban Lahore by focusing on their everyday experiences within the spheres of school, family and friends. Interviews with a diverse young people support this exploratory study in gaining insight into a variety of everyday experiences of use of spaces in school and experiences with teachers, school administration and peers. Additionally, this study offe…
author: Maqbool, Irum
language: eng
keywords: Education in Pakistan, Gender, Identity formation, Lifeworld, Precarity, Young people in Pakistan
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date published: 2024-08-21
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:24:23Z
provider: Cambridge University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: University of Cambridge

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value: 10.17863/CAM.114258