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Wray-Lake, Laura; Syvertsen, Amy K.; Briddell, Laine; Osgood, D. Wayne; Flanagan, Constance A. – Youth & Society, 2011
Using data from the Monitoring the Future study, this article presents historical trends in U.S. high school seniors' work values across 30 years (1976-2005). Adolescents across three decades highly valued most aspects of work examined. Recent cohorts showed declines in the importance of work, values for job security, and various potential…
Descriptors: Adolescents, High School Seniors, Value Judgment, Data Analysis
McLaughlin, Diane K.; Demi, Mary Ann; Curry, Alisha; Snyder, Anastasia R. – Center for Rural Pennsylvania, 2009
In 2004, the Center for Rural Pennsylvania contracted with Pennsylvania State University to begin a longitudinal study of rural Pennsylvania school students to understand their educational and career aspirations and the factors influencing their aspirations, whether their plans change as they age and if they attain their goals. In its entirety,…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Rural Areas, Data Collection
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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