Career Choice

A gendered and racial narrative that excludes the experiences, perspectives, and voices of Black and Latino male educators has dominated research regarding identity development and career choice. The purpose of this qualitative life history study was to provide Black and Latino …

The transition from education to the labour market is a constant theme for sociological investigation, but the study of occupational choice itself has occupied a peripheral place in the theory and research literature for the past two decades. Of particular concern here, neither …

This thesis examines the impact of engineering cultures on women engineering students' gendered and professional identities. It is simultaneously focused on exploring how identity shapes, and is shaped by, women's experiences of engineering cultures and the relationship between …

This qualitative study seeks to obtain an in-depth understanding of aspects of Igbo culture that influence educational practices of female and male 12th grade students in their career choices as they approach their graduation from high schools in Enugu State. The study was based…

Over the past decade much has changed in the United States schools. The number of minority students in U.S. continues to increase. The number of ethnically diverse teachers is declining. By the year 2000, it estimated that minority students will compromise 33% of the school popu…