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Changes in Educational Expectations between 10th and 12th Grades across Cohorts
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Park, Sueuk; Wells, Ryan; Bills, David – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2015
The mean levels of educational expectations of American high school students have increased over the past generation; individual educational expectations change as students mature. Using the National Education Longitudinal Study and the Education Longitudinal Study, we examined simultaneously the changes in individuals' expectations from 10th to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Expectation, Cohort Analysis, Student Attitudes
A Level Playing "Field"? A Bourdieusian Analysis of the Career Aspirations of Further Education Students on Sports Courses
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Connolly, Daniel J.; Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn; Evans, Adam B. – Sport, Education and Society, 2016
There is currently a distinct dearth of research into how sports students' career aspirations are formed during their post-compulsory education. This article, based on an ethnographic study of sport students in tertiary education, draws on data collected from two first-year cohorts (n = 34) on two different courses at a further education college…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Occupational Aspiration, Ethnography, Observation
Commitment to Environmental Sustainability in the UK Student Population
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Cotton, Debby R. E.; Alcock, Ian – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
Sustainability is an increasingly important issue in higher education, both in the UK and internationally. Although environmental sustainability is the most frequently identified of the three pillars of sustainability (social and economic sustainability being less widely understood), there has been little previous research which has quantitatively…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Sustainability, Cohort Analysis
Ethnicity, Gender, Social Class and Achievement Gaps at Age 16: Intersectionality and "Getting It" for the White Working Class
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Strand, Steve – Research Papers in Education, 2014
Perhaps the most prevailing inequalities in educational achievement in England are those associated with socio-economic status (SES), ethnicity and gender. However, little research has sought to compare the relative size of these gaps or to explore interactions between these factors. This paper analyses the educational achievement at age 11, 14…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Gender Differences, Social Class, Achievement Gap
Experiences of Schooling in the Welfare State: A Longitudinal Study of Life Trajectories and Legitimation of Education in Sweden.
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Lindblad, Sverker; Prieto, Hector Perez – 1990
Life trajectories and education in a welfare state were examined from two points of departure. The ways in which education as a system is related to social origin, gender, and career were analyzed in a longitudinal study following a cohort of 671 students (329 males and 342 females) in a Swedish community through the educational system and into…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Cohort Analysis, Education Work Relationship, Educational Experience
Careers and Perspectives on Schooling in the Welfare State: A Longitudinal Study on Students' Origins, Destiny, and Experiences of Schooling.
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Lindblad, Sverker; Prieto, Hector Perez – 1990
The working of the educational system in a welfare state was examined in a longitudinal study of a cohort (initially 1,029) of students followed from age 7 to age 23 years. An initial sample included 329 males and 342 females, of whom 352 had working class careers and 319 had middle class careers. Relationships among social origin, gender, and…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Cohort Analysis, Education Work Relationship, Educational Experience