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Year 7 Pupils' Views of the Future
Joint Authors
Atherton, Graeme
Remedios, Richard
Roberts, Ken
Source
Issue
Vol. 2011, Issue 2011 (31 Dec. 2011), pp.1-10, 10 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2011-04-13
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
10
Main Subjects
Social Sciences (Multidisciplinary)
Abstract EN
This paper reports findings from a study among 610 Year 7 (typically age 12) pupils at 27 nonselective secondary schools in three English regions: Cornwall and Devon, London, and Greater Manchester.
Data was gathered in workshops, each with 15–25 pupils, who completed questionnaires and performed individual tasks, all related to their vocational and educational aims, their ideas on what counted as success, and the main influences on their forward thinking, then discussed their answers and results.
The discussions were tape recorded.
Most pupils expressed robust occupational aims, and most said that they wanted to go to university.
Family class did not predict levels of educational or occupational aims, but was related to the importance attached to “the job that I want to do” in the pupils' forward thinking.
SAT scores did predict levels of occupational aspiration, ideas on what counted as success, and by whom and what the pupils were most influenced.
These findings are interpreted to challenge the view, on which a raft of current policies are based, that social class disparities in educational and labour market outcomes are due to the intergenerational transmission of low aspirations in lower-class families and neighbourhoods.
The paper concludes with an alternative model of status transmission processes in which attainments during secondary education are posited as the key intervening variable.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Roberts, Ken& Atherton, Graeme& Remedios, Richard. 2011. Year 7 Pupils' Views of the Future. Child Development Research،Vol. 2011, no. 2011, pp.1-10.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Roberts, Ken…[et al.]. Year 7 Pupils' Views of the Future. Child Development Research No. 2011 (2011), pp.1-10.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Roberts, Ken& Atherton, Graeme& Remedios, Richard. Year 7 Pupils' Views of the Future. Child Development Research. 2011. Vol. 2011, no. 2011, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-476678
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-476678