The reasoning behind the envisioned educational trajectories of young people from Finnish and immigrant origins
Janne Varjo; Markku Jahnukainen; Mira Kalalahti
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2021042825169
Tiivistelmä
Transitions from one level of education system to another and from
education to work are structured by socio-economic and institutional
structure factors, while at the same time they are appropriated by
individuals in their biographical constructions. Patterns to career
trajectories are also dependent on social class, immigrant origin and
level of academic achievement. This paper elaborates the ways young
people are envisioning their post-comprehensive trajectories in Finland.
Based on an analysis of qualitative interview data (n = 113) with
immigrant- and Finnish-origin youths in the final year of their
comprehensive education (ninth grade), patterns of envisioned
educational trajectories are identified and the reasoning behind them
recognised. The analysis introduces six possible envisioned educational
trajectories, based on combinations of envisioned educational choices
and occupational destinations. They portray the multiple relational
aspects and intertwining processes of the decision-making processes, but
also underline the nature of them as self-made reasonings of skills,
stress, friends, life management and aspirations. Study guidance and
counselling should support the decision-making processes as a part of
the holistic life-design process.
Kokoelmat
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