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Yulu Hou – Cogent Education, 2024
Understanding educational aspiration is pivotal for studying access to and success in higher education, given its influence on academic, occupational, and societal trajectories. Yet, aspiration is a challenging topic to research, in part because of its complex definitions, measurements, and contexts. This review focuses on the educational…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, Higher Education
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Tingzhi Han; Ling Huang; Longfei Hao – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
This mixed methods study investigated the change types and the underlying mechanisms of Chinese undergraduates' deep learning approach at a research-oriented university in eastern China. In Study 1, the deep learning approach of 273 freshmen was assessed using R-SPQ-2F at the beginning and end of a semester. The changes were categorized into three…
Descriptors: Learning Trajectories, Learning Processes, College Freshmen, Foreign Countries
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Lijuan Wang; Elina Lehtomaki – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2024
This study proposes a patterned explanation for the unequal educational achievement between Yi and Han students in China. Family backgrounds, school settings, educational expectations and aspirations are examined when investigating ethnic gaps in educational achievement. Evidence suggests significant impact of family backgrounds in shaping…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Student Characteristics, Family Characteristics
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Zhou, Xiaochen; Li, Jia; Jordan, Lucy P. – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2019
Despite China being a major source country of international students, factors associated with Chinese parents' intent for children to study abroad remains under-investigated. Inspired by a Bourdieusian framework, this study examined whether parental desire for children's international education can be delineated by family background, while…
Descriptors: Parent Aspiration, Academic Aspiration, Study Abroad, Foreign Countries
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Jin, Jin; Ball, Stephen J. – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2020
Studies in relation to working-class students at elite universities document on the one hand the role of 'mundane reflexivity' in dealing with class domination while on the other indicate a new form of domination and disadvantages working on these working-class 'exceptions' -- they may achieve academically at university but experience various…
Descriptors: Working Class, Selective Admission, Social Capital, Cultural Capital
Jiang, Shanshan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This project examines, how, through educational mobility, the economic, educational, and housing transformations of one city in China influence the class and racial relations of another in the United States (US). Drawing on theories from education, urban geography, migration studies, and transnational racial theories, this research connects…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urbanization, Student Mobility, Social Capital