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Direct linkJessica Barnes Sabater – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study explored the impact of military education benefits on influencing how service members, while enlisted, navigated their higher education journeys. Iloh's model of college-going decisions was an integral theoretical framework in the implementation of this qualitative case study. The case study aimed to capture the narratives of the…
Descriptors: Military Service, Military Personnel, Higher Education, Federal Legislation
Portraits of Young Refugee Women's Identities, Experiences, and Beliefs in Relation to College-Going
Peer reviewedMann, Jennifer C.; Turner, Alison McGlinn – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore the stories of two young refugee women, Sue Mar and Amora, and how their adolescent identities, experiences, and beliefs, partially shaped by their English teacher, helped pave their paths to higher education. Design/methodology/approach: This study is guided by the lens of critical literacy as "a way of…
Descriptors: Females, Refugees, Self Concept, Experience
Brown, Ivey – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how and why the human, cultural, and social capital (or lack thereof) of students from rural North Carolina counties of persistent poverty impacted their decision to attend a historically black college or university (HBCU). Students from counties of persistent poverty in their first semester…
Descriptors: Counties, Poverty, Social Capital, Decision Making
Gibbons, Melinda M.; Borders, L. DiAnne; Wiles, Mark E.; Stephan, Julie B.; Davis, Patrick E. – Professional School Counseling, 2006
Few researchers have asked students directly about what they know and need to know regarding college and career planning. Given the critical choices made early in high school, ninth graders (n = 222) were surveyed regarding their educational and career plans and the resources they were using in their decision-making. Overall results as well as…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Grade 9, College Planning, Parent Education
Download full textDRABICK, LAWRENCE W. – 1967
INFLUENCES WHICH HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS PERCEIVE AS AFFECTING THEIR OCCUPATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL ASPIRATIONS WERE INVESTIGATED. GROUP-ADMINISTERED INTERVIEW SCHEDULES WERE COMPLETED BY 1,068 SENIORS IN 12 HIGH SCHOOLS BASICALLY ATTENDED BY WHITE STUDENTS AND 11 HIGH SCHOOLS PREDOMINANTLY ATTENDED BY NEGRO STUDENTS. DIFFERENCES IN PERCEPTIONS WERE…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, Decision Making, Environmental Influences
