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Kearney, Judith; Glen, Matthew – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2017
This article reports on a study that investigated the education pathways of 464 young people. We were interested in the effects of New Zealand citizenship and Pacific ethnicity on pathways so compared findings for three groups residing in Australia: Pacific youth with New Zealand citizenship, Pacific youth with Australian citizenship, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pacific Islanders, Citizenship, Ethnicity
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Strathdee, Rob; Engler, Ralf – British Educational Research Journal, 2012
There is disagreement in the literature regarding the influence of social and cultural factors on the propensity for young people to undertake higher education. This study draws upon a national data set of over 45,000 young people to assesses their propensity to progress to bachelor level study, while controlling for their ethnic backgrounds,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Young Adults, Foreign Countries
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Nairn, Karen; Higgins, Jane; Ormond, Adreanne – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2007
Dominant conceptions of the world infuse educational experiences for young people in implicit rather than explicit ways--through becoming, as Stuart Hall argues, "the horizon of the taken-for-granted". In this article we explore these horizons as experienced by New Zealand's neo-liberal generation, currently "in transition"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Adolescents, Age Differences