Living class in a ‘meritocratic’ Australia: The burdens of class and choice on young people’s end-of-school transitions

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 396-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Donovan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Young People ◽  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
School Transitions ◽  
School Students ◽  
Australian Education

In the Australian education system, there are substantial class inequalities in educational outcomes and transitions. These inequalities persist despite increased choice and individual opportunity for young people. This article explores high school students’ experiences of class in a social context they largely believe to be a meritocracy. Specifically, it asks: how does class shape young people’s thinking and decision-making about their post-school futures? I use Bourdieu’s ‘habitus’ as a frame to understand the role of class in young people’s lives, stressing its generative and heterogeneous aspects. Drawing on qualitative-led mixed methods research, this article argues that young people have internalised the ‘doxa’ of meritocracy, agency and ambition, conceiving of themselves as individual agents in this context. However, risk and security, opportunities and constraints, are not distributed equally in a class-stratified society. Young people from working-class backgrounds more commonly imagine insecure, uncertain futures.

scholarly journals CAREER DECISION-MAKING ATTRIBUTION AND SELF EFFICACY: THE MODERATING ROLE OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Rose Mini Agoes Salim ◽  
Shahnaz Safitri
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
School Students ◽  
Moderating Role

It is known that gifted high-school students tend to have difficulty in choosing career due to their wide-range interests and capabilities. In order to successfully making an appropriate career choice, having a high level of career decision making self-efficacy (CDMSE) is an important precondition. CDMSE is the belief in one’s ability to successfully complete the task necessary to make career-related decisions. Of several factors known to be affecting CDMSE, previous study has shown that career decision-making attribution (CDMA) could affect students CDMSE. However, the CDMA effect on CDMSE in gifted student is seemed to be related to personal trait of students, namely emotional intelligence (EI). Therefore, this study aims to examine the moderating role of EI on the impact of gifted high-school student CDMA on CDMSE. Subjects in this study were gifted high school students (N = 165; 52.12% males; M-age = 16.20 years old) in Jakarta. The measurement tools used are CDMSE Scale Short-Form, Assessment of Attribution for Career Decision Making, and Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire Short-Form (TEIQue-SF) adapted into Indonesian language. The data were analyzed using simple regression analysis with Hayes PROCESS model. It was found that there is a direct effect of CDMA on CDMSE with (F (1,163) = 10.6661, p = .0033 < .001), in which CDMA serves as a predictor of CDMSE. We also found that EI can serve as a predictor of CDMSE (F (1,163) = 10.6661, p = .0007<.001. However, EI did not moderate the CDMA-CDMSE relation. Discussion, limitations, and suggestions for further research are listed. 

scholarly journals Recreational use of forests by young people

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16
Author(s):  
Jolanta Barbara Cichowska
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Young People ◽  
University Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Forest Use ◽  
Recreational Use ◽  
Sanitary State ◽  
Forest Activities

AbstractThe article is a continuation of research conducted in 2016–2017, whose goal was to determine expectations and needs of young people regarding forests. In this study, attention is focused on different preferences of high-school students and university students. Frequency and reasons for which high-school students visit forests have been studied. Forms of forest activities preferred by the respondents as well as familiarity of young people with the sanitary state of the woodlands, the role of biocoenosis in the ecosystem and its significance for people have been analysed. The respondents’ knowledge of rules to be followed when being in a forest, use of its resources and major threats to this ecosystem have been studied.

scholarly journals Fostering Awareness of Nationalism Through Pancasila Among High School Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-56
Author(s):  
Soesi Idayanti ◽  
Moh .Taufik
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Young People ◽  
National Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Government

Youth and young people can play a bigger role in guarding the national development path. Various problems that arise as a result of a fading sense of nationalism and nationality have occurred recently, many young people or young people have experienced disorientation, dislocation and are involved in an interest that only cares for themselves or a certain group on behalf of the people as reasons for their activities. As the basis of the state, Pancasila must be a reference for the state in facing various global challenges in the developing world. The purpose of this study was to determine how the role of Pancasila in fostering a sense of nationalism and patriotism among high school students in Tegal Regency and to find out how the role of the government in fostering a sense of nationalism among high school students today Type of research is the literature.  This research including library research because the data used is mostly secondary data in the form of documents related to Pancasila. The approach used in this research is philosophical. Fostering a sense of nationalism for high school students through Pancasila can be done from an early age, so that gradually with age it is hoped that a sense of nationalism will persist in the Indonesian nation. It can be started from the closest group, for example, family, because it is from the family that a sense of love for the country can be trained from an early age. Towards the younger generation, the State must be present as stipulated in the Preamble of the 1945 Constitution, the state protects all Indonesia's blood, including the young generation, high school children, where they are the young people of the nation who must be cared for and protected carefully.

scholarly journals Why Young People Obey Private Security Guards? A Scenario-Based Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-160
Author(s):  
Samuel Moreira ◽  
Carla Cardoso
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Young People ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Private Security ◽  
School Students ◽  
Public Interests ◽  
Security Guards ◽  
Factors Influencing

Private security guards (PSG) are prominent social control agents in many contexts of youth attendance. However, studies about youth’s acceptance of PSG authority are scarce. In a scenario-based survey, this study examines youngsters’ compliance with three types of PSG requests and explores factors influencing compliance, particularly instrumental and normative ones. Findings from 631 high school students from the metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto (Portugal) suggest that youth typically obey PSG requests, and that perceptions about the role of PSG in protecting public interests and normative judgments about these guards and their requests are important in shaping compliance. Interestingly, variations according to the type of demand are observed. Youth obey more and see their requests as more legitimate when those requests echo shared moral positions.

scholarly journals High school EFL students’ beliefs about oral corrective feedback: The role of gender, motivation and extraversion

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-264
Author(s):  
Xuan Van Ha ◽  
Jill C. Murray ◽  
A. Mehdi Riazi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Corrective Feedback ◽  
School Students ◽  
Oral Corrective Feedback ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Clarification Request ◽  
Learning English

This study employed an explanatory sequential mixed-methods research design to examine the beliefs of Vietnamese EFL students concerning oral corrective feedback (CF) and the role of some individual differences in these beliefs. The data consisted of questionnaires completed by 250 Vietnamese high school students and follow-up interviews with 15 of them. Exploratory factor analysis revealed six latent factors underlying students’ beliefs about CF, namely, (1) output-prompting CF and eliciting recasts, (2) desire for CF, (3) non-verbal cues, (4) important errors, (5) input-providing CF, and (6) less important errors. Descriptive statistics and thematic analysis of the interviews showed that students were positive about CF. They liked both input-providing CF and output-prompting CF for all error types. Metalinguistic feedback was the most strongly preferred, while clarification request was the least preferred. Further statistical analyses revealed some interesting relationships between students’ beliefs about CF and their gender, English learning motivation, and self-rated introversion/extraversion. Females were more positive about CF than males, and extraverted females were more positive about input-providing CF than introverted females. Also, students learning English for exams were more positive about CF than those learning English for communication. Pedagogical implications for effective feedback provision in EFL contexts are discussed.

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