Educational pathways of minority youth in Norway : Intersections of gender, ethnicity and social class
Smette, Ingrid (Norsk institutt for forskning om oppvekst, velferd og aldring (Oslo))

Data:	2007
Resum:	Este texto se presentó como comunicación al II Congreso Internacional de Etnografía y Educación: Migraciones y ciudadanías. Barcelona, 5-8 Septiembre 2008.
Resum:	Educational aspirations during lower secondary school and choice of upper secondary education are important for young people's future trajectories into higher education and labour market positions. In line with ideas about reflexive, autonomous individuals (Giddens, 1991), choice of education is often represented as a young person' individual decision, and educational guidance as aimed at discovering what 'fits' an individual's personality, interests and abilities. Educational aspirations and choices are also social patterns that are reproduced. Some population categories represent exceptions from expected patterns of social reproduction of educational level and professions. In several countries, one such category is young people from families with migration experiences (Lauglo, 2000; Modood, 2004). In Norway, students have a legal right to non-compulsory upper secondary schooling and 96 percent of the students continue from lower to upper secondary school. In spite of positive developments regarding minority youths' completion of upper secondary and higher education in later years, studies still persistently show lower educational attainment among minority youth, particularly among boys (Fekjaer, 2006). However, in lower secondary school, minor ity youth tend to have markedly higher educational aspirations and stronger learning motivation than their majority peers, as well as greater effort in school and strong adherence to school values (Lauglo, 2000) despite lower educational attainment or lower socio-economic backgrounds. In addition, gender differences in educational aspirations seem to be smaller among minority youth. The principal objective of the study in progress that will be presented in this paper, is to describe how processes relating to gendered, ethnic and class-based identities influence young people's educational choices. The study is undertaken as a PhD project in social anthropology. The methodological approach is ethnographic longitudinal fieldwork in two multicultural lower secondary schools in Oslo. The study is part of a larger project that also include quantitative analyses of longitudinal data covering 9th graders in Oslo 2006 through four data collections during lower and upper secondary school.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Aspiracions educatives ; Joventut minoritària ; Interseccionalitat ; Educational aspirations ; Minority youth ; Intersectionality
Publicat a:	EMIGRA working papers, Núm. 4 (2007) , p. 1-12, ISSN 2013-3804

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