Billy Wong

TL;DR: For instance, this article found that the majority of young children have positive attitudes to science at age 10 but this interest then declines sharply and by age 14, their attitude and interest in the study of science has been largely formed.

TL;DR: The authors explored how the interplay of family habitus and capital can make science aspirations more "thinkable" for some (notably middle-class) children than others, and argued that social inequalities in the distribution of capital and diff...

TL;DR: This article found that science capital was unevenly spread across the student population, with 5% being classified as having high science capital and 27% "low" science capital, and that levels of science capital were clearly patterned by cultural capital, gender, ethnicity, and set (track) in science.

TL;DR: The authors argue that science aspirations are largely "unthinkable" for these girls because they do not fit with either their constructions of desirable/intelligible femininity nor with their sense of themselves as learners/students.

TL;DR: The ASPIRES (Science Aspirations and Career Choice: Age 10-14) longitudinal study as mentioned in this paper investigated the development of students' educational and occupational aspirations over time, and found that aspirations in science were most strongly related with positive attitudes to science, positive parental attitudes, and positive images of scientists.