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Margrit
Stamm
Educational
aspiration, talent and schooling: Parents as promoters of success? |
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The article examines the
connection between the educational aspirations of parents and
the path of schooling undertaken by their sons and daughters.
Serving as empirical basis is a longitudinal study of 400 17-year-olds
on the effects of the pre-school acquisition of competence in
reading and mathematics. The analysis examines the extent to
which the educational aspirations of parents constrain the scholarly
success of their child and its professional ambitions at the
end of the period of compulsory schooling; and whether this
is particularly applicable for families with highly gifted children.
Essentially, the analysis suggests a differentiation between
five basic patterns of parental educational aspirations, whereby
two patterns demonstrate significance with regard to a differentiation
according to high talent profiles: (a) a group of parents that
are «accustomed to education» and ambitious, whose
child has successfully completed its course of schooling and
has also developed similar professional ambitions to those of
its parents; (b) a group of parents with diametrically opposed
tendencies, designated «expectant parents», due
to the fact that their educational aspirations are predominantly
manifested in high demands, but where their child’s school
career is somewhat associated with failure and whose professional
ambitions do not reflect the wishes of the parents. |
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