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Field name	Details
Nuova numerazione	84386
Collocazione	UPS BIBL CENTR 39-B-921
Autore	MELE, F.
Titolo	Making it to the academic path in a tracked education system : the interplay of individual agency and social origin in early educational transitions. Parte componente di periodico
Descrizione fisica	pp. 2620–2635.
Nota generale	Estratto da: Journal of Youth and Adolescence 2023, 52, 12.
Riassunto	Little is known about the role of agency in transitions in tracked education systems or whether it varies by socioeconomic background. This study addressed this gap by estimating structural equation models based on longitudinal data that are representative of the German- and French-speaking parts of Switzerland (N = 1273 individuals, surveyed from age 6 to 18, mean age at wave 1: Mage = 6.54, SDage = 0.50, female = 49%). The findings reveal that agency (captured by study effort and occupational aspirations) and socioeconomic background (measured by parental education and family income) significantly predicted students’ transitions to academically demanding tracks in lower- and upper-secondary education. In the transition to upper-secondary education, students with fewer socioeconomic resources benefitted less than their more advantaged peers from ambitious aspirations, but they benefitted more from exerting effort. These findings suggest that both an optimistic forward-looking orientation and the exertion of effort are required to make it to an academic track. Effort may serve as a “substitutive” resource for less socioeconomically advantaged students, whereas ambitious aspirations may enhance the positive effect of family socioeconomic resources on academic educational trajectories. Overall, the evidence from this study calls for greater attention to investigating not only how agency shapes adolescents’ educational trajectories and opportunities but also how its role differs across social groups.
Tipo di documento	RICERCA.
Soggetto	EDUCAZIONE SCOLASTICA.
	SCUOLA.
	TRANSIZIONE.
	SVIZZERA.
	IMPEGNO.
	CLASSE SOCIALE.
	DIFFERENZA SOCIALE.
	ASPIRAZIONI.
	STATUS ECONOMICO.
Ambito	Sociologico
Ambito	Statistico
Autore Secondario	BUCHMANN, M.
Autore Secondario	BURGER, K.
Titolo correlato	Journal of Youth and Adolescence 2023, 52, 12.
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Making it to the academic path in a tracked education system : the interplay of individual agency and social origin in early educational transitions.