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

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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.

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  • Okabe, Masayoshi, 2018. "“Under-performing” or resilient Filipino boys in education? : listening to students’ and adults’ perspectives and backgrounds : a Western Visayas case," IDE Discussion Papers 705, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO).
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    Keywords

    Philippines; High school; Boys’ Under-performance; Poverty; Dropout; Resilience; Barkada; Secondary education; Men;
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    JEL classification:

    • I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education
    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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