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Structuring Opportunity: The Role of School Context in Shaping High School Students' Occupational Aspirations
Author(s) -
RowanKenyon Heather T.,
Perna Laura W.,
Swan Amy K.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.2011.tb00073.x
Subject(s) - structuring , context (archaeology) , resource (disambiguation) , psychology , cognition , career planning , social cognitive theory , pedagogy , sociology , mathematics education , medical education , social psychology , political science , medicine , computer science , paleontology , computer network , neuroscience , law , biology
This study explores the occupational aspirations of high school students planning to attend college by drawing on a multilayered model of college enrollment, social cognitive career theory, and multiple descriptive case studies of 15 high schools. Students' occupational aspirations and their understanding of the education required to achieve these aspirations appear to be connected to the resource level of schools in this study. The nature of career programming provided also varied by school resource level, illustrating how multiple layers of context shape the development of students' career interests as well as their decision making with respect to educational and career choices.