Unequal Futures: ‘Dreams’ of Adolescents as Status Markers

Kim, Su Jung; Cha, YoungHwa; Choi, SetByol

doi:10.21562/kjs.2020.02.54.1.101

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“…When unobserved contextual components of each school have been controlled by using school fixed effects in column (2), parental education level still remains statistically significant (p = 0.01). Meanwhile, the estimates of the household income are not significant in the model (1) and (2). These findings represent that students who have more highly educated parents are likely to show a higher level of career development than other students whose parents are less educated.…”

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“…The children of highly-educated parents with professional careers are more likely to enter professional careers as well than those whose parents who are less educated. In contrast, students in poverty are suffering from the high risk of deprivation and exclusion in preparing for their career path, resulting from insufficient financial and emotional supports from parents [2][3][4]. An increasing body of literature has concerned that the influence of parental background on students' career development might become a mechanism causing social stratification and inequality [5].…”

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Equity in Career Development of High School Students in South Korea: The Role of School Career Education

Lee¹,

Kim²,

Lee³

2021

Education Sciences

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Along with the rising concerns of career education in school, the government in South Korea has increased investments for closing the opportunity gap in career education. However, limited studies explored the equity in students’ outcomes of career education. Focusing on career development competencies, we examined if school career education could reduce the socio-economic disparities in the career development of high school students. We used the ordinary least squares (OLS) regression applying school-fixed effects with the representative data from the Korean Education and Employment Panel II. Findings showed that parental education level was positively linked to career development competencies of high school students, though household income was not shown as statistically significant. We also found that for students who engaged in career and vocational classes in school, the parental education level was less likely to be related to their career development competencies. Also, students who were more satisfied with school career education showed a weaker relationship between career development competencies and parental education level. Based on these findings, we discussed the role of school-based career education to narrow the gap in students’ career development from socio-economic backgrounds.

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confidence: 99%