1st Edition
Understanding Young People's Science Aspirations How students form ideas about ‘becoming a scientist’
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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Understanding Young People's Science Aspirations offers new evidence and understanding about how young people develop their aspirations for education, learning and, ultimately, careers in science. Integrating new findings from a major research study with a wide ranging review of existing international literature, it brings a distinctive sociological analytic lens to the field of science... Read more
1. Why Study Young People’s Science Aspirations? 2. What Do Young People Today Aspire to? 3. Schools, Lessons and Science Identities 4. The ‘Brainy’ Scientist 5. The Role of Families, Social Class and Science Capital on Young People’s Aspirations 6. Gender, Girls and Science Aspirations 7. Ethnicity and Science Aspirations: British Asian and British Black students 8. Conclusions and Implications for Research, Policy and Practice
Biography
Louise Archer is Professor of Sociology of Education at King’s College London, UK.
Jennifer DeWitt is Research Fellow at King’s College London, UK.
