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Direct linkGuzmán-Valenzuela, Carolina; Darwin, Stephen; Flanagan, Andrea; Aguilera-Muñoz, Almendra; Geldres, Andrea – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
In highly marketised higher education systems, massification has afforded greater access, particularly for first-in-generation students. Generally, this expansion has been fuelled by neoliberal ideologies that valorise the notion of choice and promise of social mobility. In this study, using interviews with 25 first-generation students, the issue…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Higher Education, Neoliberalism, Social Mobility
Palma-Amestoy, Carlos – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
This paper examines how pupils' aspirations towards higher education (HE) are shaped and reinforced in Chile. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical framework and building on relevant scholarship focussed on HE decision-making and choices, it introduces two dual-headed conceptual tools which allow a grasp of relevant differences between social…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, Educational Theories
Aldinucci, Alice; Valiente, Oscar; Hurrell, Scott; Zancajo, Adrián – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
The interest in educational and professional aspirations of students transiting to post-secondary education has gained prominence in academic debates and policy agendas internationally. Political interventions for raising aspirations quite often draw on narrow instrumental and rationalistic assumptions of individual decision-making that, as we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Vocational Education, Aspiration
Oyarzún, Juan de Dios – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
This article is based on research about the relations and tensions between secondary students' subjectivities and dominant discourses as well as education policies in rural contexts in Chile (a well-known case of neoliberal policies in recent decades). Using a poststructural theoretical perspective, the qualitative study is focused on rural…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Secondary School Students, Rural Areas, Neoliberalism
Guzmán, Pamela; Cifuentes Gomez, Gonzalo; Santelices, Maria Veronica – Educational Research, 2021
Background: The transition of high school students to higher education can be an overwhelming experience which may impact on academic outcomes. Despite increases in access, course completion rates remain problematic in Chile. Students' expectations of higher education can play an important role in their decision-making, especially in terms of…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Content Analysis, Foreign Countries, High School Seniors
Gubbins, Verónica; Otero, Gabriel – Educational Studies, 2016
The present study intends to measure the effect of the parental involvement style perceived by fourth-grade students on their Language and Mathematics performance. It uses data taken from a sample of 55,401 students evaluated by the National Education Quality Measurement System [Sistema Nacional de Medición de la Calidad de la Educación, SIMCE].…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Parent Participation, Mathematics Achievement, Language Tests
