“Under-performing” or resilient Filipino boys in education?: listening to students’ and adults’ perspectives and backgrounds: a Western Visayas case

Okabe Masayoshi

No 705, IDE Discussion Papers from Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO)

Abstract: This paper presents our research results based on field research in the province of Antique in Western Visayas, the Philippines. Through interviews with high school students who have had difficulties in pursing school education continuously, as well as the school principal and teachers, the major research concerns of this study include the gender patterns in schooling and education, and focus on several unique male students. In particular, this study tries to show resilience among previously out-ofschool students who succeeded in returning to formal high school. In so doing, it identifies the obstacles that tend to keep Filipino boys out of school and, in contrast to their somewhat stereotyped images to date, aims to present an alternative mage of “resilient” boys.

Keywords: Philippines; High school; Boys’ Under-performance; Poverty; Dropout; Resilience; Barkada; Secondary education; Men (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 I24 I31 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-03
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