College Aspirations and Access in Working-Class Rural Communities
College Aspirations and Access in Working-Class Rural Communities

Author: Sonja Ardoin

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2017-12-20

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1498536875

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College Aspirations and Access in Working Class Rural Communities: The Mixed Signals, Challenges, and New Language First-Generation Students Encounter explores how a working class, rural environment influences rural students’ opportunities to pursue higher education and engage in the college choice process. Based on a case study with accounts from rural high school students and counselors, this book examines how these communities perceive higher education and what challenges arise for both rural students and counselors. The book addresses how college knowledge and university jargon illustrate the gap between rural cultural capital and higher education cultural capital. Insights about approaches to reduce barriers created by college knowledge and university jargon are shared and strategies for offering rural students pathways to learn academic language and navigate higher education are presented for both secondary and higher education institutions.

Organization Design
Organization Design

Author: John Joseph

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2018-12-10

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1787563316

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Advances in Strategic Management is dedicated to communicating innovative, new research that advances theory and practice in Strategic Management. This volume focuses on organization design and collaborative ways of working.

Aspirations and women's empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan
Aspirations and women's empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Author: Kosec, Katrina

Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst

Published: 2018-12-18

Total Pages: 5

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We find strong empirical evidence that raising aspirations is one route to empowering women. Higher aspirations on the part of husbands predicts more egalitarian gender attitudes for both the husband and his wife. However, higher aspirations on the part of wives may be an even more important predictor of women's empowerment. In particular, higher aspirations on the part of wives predict both more egalitarian gender attitudes (for both the husband and his wife) as well as greater involvement of women in household decision-making, as agreed by both the wife and her husband.

Student Aspirations
Student Aspirations

Author: Ved Prakash

Publisher: Mittal Publications

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9788170990192

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Study of the students of 9th standard in government and private schools in the Union Territory of Delhi.

Career Exploration and Development in Childhood
Career Exploration and Development in Childhood

Author: Mark Watson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1317405943

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Career Exploration and Development in Childhood presents chapters from leading figures in the field of childhood career exploration and development. The first substantive edited collection of its kind, this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of children’s career development. It provides cutting-edge theory, research and practice for understanding and fostering career exploration and development during childhood, across a wide spectrum of international settings. Divided into five sections that reflect the authors’ perspectives on critical aspects of children’s career development, chapters include relevant research, as well as the practical application of concepts, issues and strategies for career interventions with children. The book includes sequential sections on theory, research, contextual influences, assessment, and the facilitation of career exploration and development. Perspectives from both developed and developing world contexts consider traditional approaches to career education, as well as career development learning in childhood. The collaborations evident in the chapter authorship reflect the significant internationalisation of the field of child career development. The book synthesises key issues and presents innovative recommendations that will not only enhance our understanding of children’s career development, but will set the agenda for the future of the field. It will be of key interest to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of career development, career guidance, education, childhood, child development and counselling.

Income aspirations, migration, and investments on and off the farm: Evidence from rural Tajikistan
Income aspirations, migration, and investments on and off the farm: Evidence from rural Tajikistan

Author: Bloem, Jeffrey R.

Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst

Published: 2023-12-08

Total Pages: 45

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In places with few casual or salaried employment opportunities, investments in farm or non-farm assets may offer the main pathway to increased incomes locally, whereas others may seek alternative investment options elsewhere—as migrants. What factors, then, explain these investment choices? One theory suggests that aspirations that are ahead, but not too far ahead, of current levels provide the best incentive for promoting investment. If this theory holds, then estimates of the relationship between the aspirations gap and investment choices should take the form of a non-monotonic inverted U-shape. We test for such a relationship between the income aspirations gap and investments in migration, farm assets, and non-farm assets using data from a household survey in rural Tajikistan. We find evidence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between the income aspirations gap and measures of migration, with the strongest relationship found with international migration. Strikingly, we do not observe any association between the income aspirations gap and measures of investment in farm or non-farm assets. Exploring heterogeneity, we find that these results can vary by household poverty status and by the respondent’s gender. Investigating a possible mechanism, we find that the relationship between the income aspirations gap and migration seems to be driven by remittances, which outweigh migration costs and increase household income.

Women’s aspirations for the future, and their financial, social and educational investments
Women’s aspirations for the future, and their financial, social and educational investments

Author: Raghunathan, Kalyani

Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst

Published: 2018-08-20

Total Pages: 73

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We examine the correlates of aspirations of rural women around income, asset ownership, social status and the education of their children, using primary data from India. We then investigate how the gaps between current and aspired-to status are associated with individual investments in financial, social status-related, and educational dimensions.