The Influence of Home Factors and Parental Characteristics on Learners’ Career Choices in a South African Secondary School

IF 0.2 Q4 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Africa Education Review Pub Date : 2021-11-02 DOI:10.1080/18146627.2022.2157741

Veronica Ochonogor, J. Seroto

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Abstract Many youths complain about mistaken career choices even at the point of graduating from higher education institutions in spite of career advice provided by the school and the government. This article investigated the impact that home factors and parental characteristics have on learners’ career choices in a secondary school in Mamelodi East, Tshwane District, South Africa. The study made use of a qualitative design. Data were collected from a purposive sample of eight black grade 11 learners and five parents by means of focus group and individual semi-structured interviews. The data collected were analysed using Atlas-ti with appropriate coding that gave rise to five themes. Two of the themes, home factors and parental characteristics, are discussed. The findings show that, irrespective of parental socio-economic status and educational levels, parents derived satisfaction from motivating and assisting their children with the view to improving their future career options. Many learners, however, were ill-informed of the range of career choices available when they made decisions about their educational and occupational future since their parents lacked appropriate information necessary to advise them.

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家庭因素和父母特征对南非中学学生职业选择的影响

摘要尽管学校和政府提供了职业建议，但许多年轻人甚至在高等教育机构毕业时就抱怨职业选择错误。本文调查了南非茨瓦内区马梅洛迪东部一所中学的家庭因素和父母特征对学生职业选择的影响。该研究采用了定性设计。数据是通过焦点小组和个人半结构化访谈的方式，从8名11年级黑人学习者和5名家长中收集的。使用Atlas ti对收集到的数据进行了分析，并进行了适当的编码，产生了五个主题。讨论了其中两个主题，家庭因素和父母特征。研究结果表明，无论父母的社会经济地位和教育水平如何，父母都会从激励和帮助孩子以改善他们未来的职业选择中获得满足感。然而，许多学习者在决定自己的教育和职业前途时，对可用的职业选择范围知之甚少，因为他们的父母缺乏必要的适当信息来为他们提供建议。

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期刊介绍： Africa Education Review is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal that seeks the submission of unpublished articles on current educational issues. It encourages debate on theory, policy and practice on a wide range of topics that represent a variety of disciplines, interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary and transdisciplinary interests on international and global scale. The journal therefore welcomes contributions from associated disciplines including sociology, psychology and economics. Africa Education Review is interested in stimulating scholarly and intellectual debate on education in general, and higher education in particular on a global arena. What is of particular interest to the journal are manuscripts that seek to contribute to the challenges and issues facing primary and secondary in general, and higher education on the African continent and in the global contexts in particular. The journal welcomes contributions based on sound theoretical framework relating to policy issues and practice on the various aspects of higher education.