Revisiting the Occupational Aspirations and Destinations of Anglo-Australian and Chinese-Australian High School Students

Autor/in	Malik, Ranbir Singh
Titel	Revisiting the Occupational Aspirations and Destinations of Anglo-Australian and Chinese-Australian High School Students
Quelle	In: Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 35 (2015) 1, S.27-39 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0218-8791
DOI	10.1080/02188791.2013.860010
Schlagwörter	Occupational Aspiration; High Achievement; Ethnography; Case Studies; Disadvantaged; Whites; Asians; Longitudinal Studies; Validity; Prediction; Parent Attitudes; Educational Attitudes; Followup Studies; Young Adults; Interviews; Correlation; Academic Achievement; Confucianism; Cultural Background; Asian Culture; Parenting Styles; Parent Aspiration; Parent Child Relationship; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Berufsneigung; Berufsziel; Ethnografie; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; White; Weißer; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Gültigkeit; Vorhersage; Elternverhalten; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Follow-up studies; Kontaktstudium; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Korrelation; Schulleistung; Konfuzianismus; Elternwille; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	Evidence from Australia lends support to the "Asian high achieving syndrome" in Chinese-Australian students and "self-deprivation syndrome" in Anglo-Australian students. Applying ethnographic case studies approach for doctoral thesis the author collected data on a longitudinal basis from homes and school of these students. All of these students attended the same school located in a predominantly middle class suburb of Perth Metropolitan area in Western Australia. Chinese-Australian families had settled in Perth from Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong, whereas Anglo-Australian families had been residing in Perth for three generations. Impetus to revisit these students (now young adults with their own families) 10 years later came from an urge to test the validity of the prediction the author had made in the concluding chapter of his doctoral thesis. The author had claimed that "if Anglo-Australian parents keep on dwelling in the era of 1950s and 1960s and do not change their laid-back attitude about education, their children could eventually be under-privileged in their own country". Ten years later, the author undertook a follow-up study on these young adults from six of the eight original families in order to find out their occupational destinations and future aspirations. Data for the follow-up study were collected from these young adults and their parents. These research cases were interviewed twice, each time approximately for two hours and their parents were interviewed once for two to three hours. The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of the follow-up study which reveals a remarkable relationship between the attitude towards schooling and academic performance with their subsequent occupational destination. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01