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Vanhalakka-Ruoho, Marjatta; Koski, Leena; Silvonen, Jussi; Tamminen, Merja – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2016
The study analyses how the educational pathways of ninth graders are constructed by practices of adolescents and their parents in families with different educational statuses. The importance of contextualising the educational transition as it occurs in daily life and socially structured family cultures is emphasised. The research question is: How…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Grade 9, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education
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Raty, Hannu; Ruokolainen, Suvi; Kasanen, Kati – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2012
The study set out to explore parents' experiences of their child's upper primary schooling. Academically and vocationally educated mothers and fathers (N = 326) were prompted to give positive and negative comments on their child's school years at the end of his/her 7th and 9th grade. It was found that a great majority of the comments were positive…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent School Relationship, Grade 9, Fathers