Leaving or Staying on at High School as a Career Decision-Making Process

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This paper uses a career framework to investigate the socially constructed knowledge which students use to make decisions concerning their preferences for further schooling. A sample of students (n= 80) from a high school is used to examine student perspectives for either early school leaving or for staying on at school. Semistructured interviews identify the ‘because of’ and ‘in order to’ motives of students as they approach this critical choice point. The decision-making process of students reveals attempts to assess the costs and benefits of the school experience for the maintenance of desirable conceptions of the self. The degree of integration of school and self is central to the development of the career perspective of the high school student.

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