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Roots and STEMS? Examining field of study choices among northern and rural youth in Canada*
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Despite several decades of postsecondary expansion, new research finds youth from northern and rural areas in Canada still experience difficulties making the transition to postsecondary edu... as discussed by the authors found that youth from rural and remote areas still experienced difficulties in the transition.Abstract:
Despite several decades of postsecondary expansion, new research finds youth from northern and rural areas in Canada still experience difficulties making the transition to postsecondary edu...read more
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Location, location, location: Examining the rural-urban skills gap in Canada
TL;DR: This article explored contemporary rural-urban differences in human capital using refined measures of literacy and numeracy skills, finding that rural residents obtain lower levels of education than their urban counterparts and those that do obtain post-secondary training often migrate to urban regions offering abundant employment opportunities and higher wages.
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Will They Stay or Will They Go? Examining the Brain Drain in Canada's Provincial North.
TL;DR: This study employs multiple waves from Statistics Canada's Youth in Transition Survey linked to each youth's reading scores from the Programme for International Student Assessment, and longitudinally to their tax filer information until age 30 (T1 Family Files).
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College Enrollment and STEM Major Choice in a Rural State: A Statewide Examination of Recent High School Cohorts
TL;DR: This article used a statewide longitudinal sample (N = 3,119) to analyze college enrollment and STEM major choice patterns of Montana's public high school students in the academic years of 2013-2017.
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Differentiation Policy and Access to Higher Education in Northern Ontario, Canada: An Analysis of Unintended Consequences
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a northern critique of differentiation policies grounded on the distance deterrence effects literature, and propose that differentiation policies threaten to exacerbate existing provincial north-south disparities in HE access, hampering human capital formation and economic development in northern communities.
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Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness
TL;DR: In this article, the extent to which economic action is embedded in structures of social relations, in modern industrial society, is examined, and it is argued that reformist economists who attempt to bring social structure back in do so in the "oversocialized" way criticized by Dennis Wrong.
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Toward an experimental ecology of human development.
TL;DR: In this paper, a broader approach to research in human development is proposed that focuses on the pro- gressive accommodation, throughout the life span, between the growing human organism and the changing environments in which it actually lives and grows.
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Effectively Maintained Inequality: Education Transitions, Track Mobility, and Social Background Effects1
TL;DR: The authors used time-varying performance measures to predict students' track placement/school continuation, and found that the later an education transition, the lower the social background effect, which supports the validity of the educational transitions approach.
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Cultural capital in educational research: A critical assessment
TL;DR: The authors assess how the concept of cultural capital has been imported into the English language, focusing on educational research and demonstrate that neither of these premises is essential to Bourdieu's understanding of culture.
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Indulging our gendered selves? Sex segregation by field of study in 44 countries.
Maria Charles,Karen Bradley +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that two cultural forces combine in advanced industrial societies to create a new sort of sex segregation regime: gender essentialist ideology and self-expressive value systems, which create opportunities and incentives for the expression of gender identities.
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