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Direct linkDaniel, Beverly-Jean Margaret – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
This article focuses on the need identified by African Canadian students for a "racial oasis" -- a physical space designed to increase their exposure to positive racial identities -- which can support them in developing a community of support among peers who understand the effects of anti-Black racism, and to identify strategies for…
Descriptors: Socialization, Foreign Countries, Blacks, Self Concept
Laberge, Luc; Auclair, Julie; Busque, Marc-Antoine; Maltais, Alexandre; Élise Ledoux – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2023
The aim was to explore predictors of employment during the school year in adolescents aged 13. We report on a population-based sample of children followed-up from 5 months to this day. Parents and children answered questions on family, school, health, and work. A multinomial logistic regression was used to identify the predictors of informal and…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Predictor Variables, Student Employment, Time Perspective
Aspirations Are Not Enough: Barriers to Educational Attainment for Youth Involved with Child Welfare
Download full textDimakos, Christina; Loomis, Colleen; O'Malley, Blaise; Lamont, Sylvie; Singh, Gurmakh; Pelletier, Janette; Christens, Brian; Wright, Carrie; Peters, Ray DeV – European Educational Researcher, 2022
Children of families involved with child welfare services are considered high-risk and are vulnerable to developing problems in a number of domains. In particular, educational achievement among this population tends to be lower relative to general population peers. The goal of this qualitative study was to understand the educational aspirations…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Barriers, Educational Attainment, Social Services
Mutongi, Kenda – History of Education Quarterly, 2023
This article argues that the "airlift" language often used to describe the eight hundred Kenyan students who attended US and Canadian universities between 1959 and 1963 is misleading. It assumes that the students were being plucked out of substandard education, yet these youth had received some of the most rigorous education in the…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Educational History, Advantaged, Colonialism
Graduate Management Admission Council, 2023
The Prospective Students Survey is one of the Graduate Management Admission Council's (GMAC) keystone research programs. The global graduate management education (GME) community has relied on data from this survey to gain insights about candidates' decision-making processes when considering and applying to graduate business schools since 2009. The…
Descriptors: Masters Degrees, Business Administration Education, Occupational Aspiration, Graduate Students
Graduate Management Admission Council, 2023
The Prospective Students Survey is one of the Graduate Management Admission Council's (GMAC) keystone research programs. The global graduate management education (GME) community has relied on data from this survey to gain insights about candidates' decision-making processes when considering and applying to graduate business schools since 2009. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Degrees, Business Administration Education, Student Recruitment
Singh, Gurmakh; Loomis, Colleen; Dimakos, Christina; O'Malley, Blaise Y.; Pelletier, Janette; Christens, Brian D.; Wright, Carrie; Peters, Ray DeV – European Educational Researcher, 2022
Influencers are individuals or entities that meaningfully contribute through a socially constructed process to the formation of educational aspirations and possibly to their attainment. The effect of a specific influencer may differ within the context of multiple influencers. The aim of the current mixed methods study was to investigate how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Role Models, Academic Aspiration, Educational Attainment
O'Malley, Blaise Y.; Loomis, Colleen; Dimakos, Christina; Lamont, Sylvie L.; Singh, Gurmakh; Pelletier, Janette; Christens, Brian D.; Wright, Carrie; Peters, Ray DeV – Journal of Education and Learning, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has radically altered how we learn, work, and live. This qualitative research aimed to study the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the educational and occupational aspirations of young Canadian adults. All close to 29 years of age, sixteen participants took part in one-on-one semi-structured interviews conducted through…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Young Adults, Foreign Countries
Graduate Management Admission Council, 2022
The Prospective Students Survey is one of the Graduate Management Admission Council's (GMAC) keystone research programs. The global graduate management education (GME) community has relied on data from this survey to gain insights about candidates' decision-making processes when considering and applying to graduate business schools since 2009. The…
Descriptors: Masters Degrees, Business Administration Education, Student Recruitment, College Applicants
Graduate Management Admission Council, 2022
The Prospective Students Survey is one of the Graduate Management Admission Council's (GMAC) keystone research programs. The global graduate management education (GME) community has relied on data from this survey to gain insights about candidates' decision-making processes when considering and applying to graduate business schools since 2009. The…
Descriptors: Masters Degrees, Business Administration Education, Student Recruitment, Administrator Education
Graduate Management Admission Council, 2022
The Prospective Students Survey is one of the Graduate Management Admission Council's (GMAC) keystone research programs. The global graduate management education (GME) community has relied on data from this survey to gain insights about candidates' decision-making processes when considering and applying to graduate business schools since 2009. The…
Descriptors: Masters Degrees, Business Administration Education, Student Recruitment, Administrator Education
Pomerantz, Shauna; Raby, Rebecca – Gender and Education, 2020
This article adds to the literature on smart girlhood by exploring the topic through Karen Barad's theory of post-human performativity. We focus on the transcripts of two participants from a larger study on girls and academic success in Canada in order to highlight the material, discursive, embodied, and temporal entanglements that co-produce the…
Descriptors: Females, Academic Achievement, Human Body, Talent
Classick, Rachel; Gambhir, Geeta; Liht, Jose; Sharp, Caroline; Wheater, Rebecca – UK Department for Education, 2021
Social mobility and improving the performance of disadvantaged pupils is a focus for policy in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. The findings from PISA 2018 provide a unique opportunity to explore the impact of disadvantage on pupils aged 15, to contextualise achievement outcomes with information about home-life and school, as well as providing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Secondary School Students
Heslop, Joanne – Student Transitions Project, 2020
This newsletter provides highlights of the latest research from the Student Transitions Project (STP), with a focus on the first transitions of British Columbia (B.C.) grade 12 graduates into B.C. public post-secondary education. The study was conducted by the Student Transitions Project (STP), a collaborative research partnership involving B.C.'s…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Graduates, Public Colleges, Enrollment
Do, Deniz – Statistics Canada, 2020
This report is part of a series of documents released in conjunction with the United Nations' International Decade for People of African Descent (2015 to 2024) and Black History Month. It aims to provide insight into some of the key socioeconomic characteristics of Canada's Black communities. The first report in this series titled "Diversity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blacks, Educational Attainment, Employment Patterns
