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Luana Dos Santos Fraga; Izete Pengo Bagolin – Journal of College Student Development, 2023
This study aimed to identify whether motivation to learn has a statistically significant effect on intergenerational educational mobility among Brazilian university students. Although qualitative studies have proposed the existence of this relationship, quantitative evidence still needs to be discovered. We sought to identify the characteristics…
Descriptors: Educational Mobility, Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Motivation
Carnicer, Javier A. – London Review of Education, 2019
Based on a case study, this article discusses connections between educational inequality in Brazil, transnational migration and educational upward mobility. It analyses a young woman's migration from a "favela" in Brazil to Germany with a focus on the educational aspirations that motivated it, that is, as a case of "educational…
Descriptors: Migration, Educational Opportunities, Foreign Countries, Academic Aspiration
Klein, Charles H.; Carmo, Milena Mateuzi – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2019
Today, young adults from lower-income backgrounds are pursuing educational trajectories that would have been distant dreams for their parents. In many Global South countries, this expansion has followed a neoliberal logic in which private universities purport to provide students skills and increased earning capacity, and employers the necessary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, First Generation College Students, Academic Aspiration, Occupational Aspiration
Bayeck, Rebecca Yvonne – Open Praxis, 2016
This paper reports preliminary findings on students enrolled in a massive open online course, who were also assigned to work in groups. Part of a larger study on the effect of groups on retention and completion in MOOCs, the paper provides students' demographics (i.e., location, gender, education level, and employment status), and motivation for…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Student Characteristics, Demography
Carvalho, Marília – Gender and Education, 2015
The principle focus of this article is to understand the influence of socialisation in the family on the success of girls at school. Eight low-income families with children of both sexes in the city of São Paulo, Brazil were studied through interviews and observation methods. It was found that socialisation in the family favoured in girls, and not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Womens Education, Family Influence
Martinez-Restrepo, Susana – ProQuest LLC, 2012
What are the socioeconomic implications of the time allocation decisions made by low-income adolescents? The way adolescents allocate their time between schooling, labor and leisure has important implications for their education attainment, college aspirations, job opportunities and future earnings. This study focuses on adolescents and young…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Pregnancy, Gender Differences, Outcomes of Education
Hansen, David O. – 1975
The study examined the effects of socioeconomic origin (SES) and mental ability (MA) on levels of educational (EA) and occupational aspiration (OA), academic performance (AP), and significant others' influence (SOI) for 1,950 5th grade elementary and 4th year gymnastic students in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Representative samples of approximately…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Aspiration, Correlation
Montgomery, Walter A. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
This bulletin discusses the phases of educational progress in Latin America. The following topic areas are covered: (1) Central America (practical education; Guatemala; Salvador; Honduras; Costa Rica; Nicaragua; Panama); (2) British Guiana (new school regulation); (3) Argentina (preliminary; illiteracy; report of National Council of Education;…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Higher Education, Business Education, Educational Development
Gama, Elizabeth Maria P.; Jesus, Denise Meyrelles de – 1997
How low-income Brazilian students explain their school performance and the predominant achievement causes were studied. The relationship between achievement attribution and school achievement and students' conceptions of choice, career, agency, and relationship with achievement were also studied, using the causal attribution theory of B. Weiner.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns