With partners:
Student Snapshot 1
STUDENT: [feelings about school] I am frustrated because I like to achieve but I am not able to due to my level of English language.
Student Snapshot 2
Here an Arabic female student illustrates how young people can selectively construct their pathways: conforming to gender norms on the one hand, but not on the other.
FEMALE STUDENT: My dreams and ambitions is to be a hairdresser when I grow up, after I finish VCE. And in five years I’ll probably have my own business, a hair dressing shop, and I’ll probably have a fiancé or married but I don’t think I’ll have kids.
Student Snapshot 3
FEMALE STUDENT: My dreams and ambitions is to leave school with a successful career and hopefully head on to international career in fashion designing. To achieve all this you’ll have to take school a bit more seriously and not to make a mockery and a joke out of everything.