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Hegna, Kristinn; Smette, Ingrid – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
Studies of young people's experiences of parental influence on their educational choice in different family contexts are lacking. This study explores such experiences among youth in Norway, where educational choice is normatively construed as an autonomous decision. The article draws on data from a survey of 2029 youths that includes open-ended…
Descriptors: Parent Influence, Decision Making, Student Surveys, Foreign Countries
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Pollard, Andrew; Filer, Ann – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2007
This paper reports on the social factors influencing the learning of two cohorts of school students and their experience of compulsory secondary education in a city in southern England - the secondary schooling phase of a 12-year, longitudinal ethnographic study that also tracked the same children's experiences through primary schooling. We embed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Objectives, Young Adults, Secondary Education
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Van de gaer, Eva; Pustjens, Heidi; Van Damme, Jan; De Munter, Agnes – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2006
In this study we examined whether the underachievement of boys in language at the end of secondary education is related to school-related attitudes. Data were drawn from the LOSO project, a longitudinal research project in secondary education. The results showed that there were gender differences in language achievement in favour of girls in the…
Descriptors: Track System (Education), School Attitudes, Underachievement, Males
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Duru-Bellat, Marie – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1996
Summarizes a longitudinal study that identifies a variety of mechanisms within the French school system that continue to generate social inequalities. These mechanisms include school status, parental choice, and economic status. Briefly reviews social inequality and French educational policy. (MJP)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Policy, Educational Status Comparison, Foreign Countries
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McLeod, Julie – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2000
Explores how gender and class subjectivity is embodied by Australian secondary-school students through interviews with two young people. Examines the developmental aspect of identity formation, addressing the impact of feminism on gender change. Focuses on the subjectivity-school relation by exploring the interactions between individual…
Descriptors: Biographies, Educational Environment, Educational Research, Feminism