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Direct linkMatope, Jasmine; Badroodien, Azeem – Perspectives in Education, 2015
This article draws from a qualitative research project completed at Victoria High School (pseudonym) in Cape Town in 2012 which explored 13 learners' perspectives of achievement and its influence on their lives and thinking. The piece problematises and analyses taken-for-granted connections between money, achievement, youth aspirations and views…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, High Schools, High School Students
Ellis, Wendy E.; Wolfe, David A. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2009
The purpose of the present study was to examine how peer group processes of pressure and control and individual motivations for popularity would add to, and moderate the relationship between, childhood maltreatment and risky behavior in adolescence. A total of 1558 youth (804 girls) from three high schools in Ontario, Canada (M age = 15.02 years,…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Females, Drinking, Adolescents
