This article examines the social mobility strategies employed by working-class Moroccan families in the context of the complex relationship of elite sport and school. To better understand these strategies, a qualitative study, including semi-structured interviews and participant observations, was conducted in the city of Temara (on the outskirts…

This study investigated the goals adolescents and parents have for the adolescent's participation in an organized youth program. Open-ended interviews were conducted with 52 adolescents from 13 project-based youth programs and one of their caregivers. Adolescents (aged 13-18; 56% female) were ethnically diverse (46% Latinx, 29% European American,…

Research on long-term planning for adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in India is non-existent. The mixed-methods study examined caregiver's expectations around the future planning of an adult with ASD and the barriers and facilitators to the future planning. The purposive sample included 139 caregivers to adults and adolescents with ASD…

This article offers an interpretive examination of the future orientation of students in vocational schools as part of their vocational habitus. Through in-depth interviews with 30 adolescents (16 boys, 14 girls), the study identified three key future orientations: (1) the vague use of the term 'success' in the absence of an accompanying…

Further education (FE) is an under-represented area in educational psychology practice. As young people move from education to employment, those who have received support for an additional need which is not then recognised as a disability by the 2010 Equality Act; special educational need ("SEN") rather than special educational need and…

The Autism Voices study draws on novel inclusive methods to obtain the first-person experiences of autistic youth with a range of cognitive and verbal abilities. Thirty-one autistic youth were interviewed with a strength-based protocol, enabling them to provide responses in the modality of their choice. Dynamics between youth and their…

Research on social aspects of academic motivation is scarce. Based on two nationally representative cohorts within the Swedish longitudinal ETF-project, the study examined (a) relationships between academic mastery/performance, social and future achievement goal orientations in the Swedish grade 9 compulsory school (2008/2014); (b) their…

This paper argues that the consideration of educational disadvantage should go beyond the micro-scale contextual level of individual students, and explore eventual connections with hybrid forms of disadvantage in the social field. The paper draws on the capability approach and the concept of dwelling to introduce dwelling in time as functioning.…

The aim of the OECD Career Readiness project is to identify patterns of teenage attitudes and activities that are associated with better transitions into employment by analysing multiple national longitudinal datasets. This paper looks for further evidence of the link between teenage activities, experiences and career-related thinking and adult…