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Peter Kelly; James Goring; Meave Noonan; Seth Brown – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
In this paper -- where we will draw on data from a small scale longitudinal study of young people's post-COVID aspirations and sense of their futures in a de-industrialising city -- we will suggest that Appadurai's (2004) ideas about the 'capacity to aspire' encourages us to shift our focus from the 'aspirations' of individual young people to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 11, COVID-19
James, Richard – 2000
The attitudes and aspirations of Australian high school students regarding postsecondary education and work were examined in a survey of more than 7,000 students in grades 10-12 in New South Wales, Victoria, and Western Australia. The students' intentions were strongly influenced by socioeconomic background, geographical location, and gender.…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, Definitions, Educational Attainment