ERIC Number: EJ1148392
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
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The Social Space of Educational Strategies: Exploring Patterns of Enrolment, Efficiency and Completion among Swedish Students in Undergraduate Programmes with Professional Qualifications
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, v61 n5 p503-525 2017
The aim of the study was to analyse enrolment patterns, and study efficiency and completion among students in programmes with professional qualifications, using microdata from Statistics Sweden. The programmes were Architecture, Medicine, Nursing, Law, Social work, Psychology, andEngineering (year 2001-2002, n = 15,918). Using the concepts from Bourdieu's sociology, data was analysed with Specific Multiple Correspondence Analysis. Different patterns emerged and were constructed as different dimensions of the social space of educational strategies in higher education, patterns of enrolment, efficiency, and completion. The students' relative positions in the social structure were analysed by the type and amount of their cultural capital. The most important factors for differences between coherent intensive and scattered extensive enrolment patterns were programmes, gender, mother's socioeconomic index, parents' education, and type of university. Regarding efficiency, the most important factors were programme and type of university. The factors most important for graduation were gender and type of university.
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Gender Differences, Institutional Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Enrollment Trends, Efficiency, Competition, Employment Qualifications, Architectural Education, Medical Education, Nursing Education, Legal Education (Professions), Social Work, Psychology, Cultural Capital, Mothers, Socioeconomic Background, Parent Background, Educational Attainment, Social Structure, Graduation, Statistical Analysis, Undergraduate Students, Dropouts
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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