How students choose their study pathways
Issue n°97, december 2024
An issue coordinated by: Emeritus Thierry Chevaillier
How students choose their study pathways is a major issue in many countries. Over the past 20 years, education systems and attitudes have changed. A logic of individual school choice, then in its infancy in certain countries, has gained wide acceptance, but remains limited by the need to balance individual freedom and the common good.
In a world where training paths are becoming longer and more diversified, when are the choices made that influence young people's professional futures? Who participates in these choices? Are there any emerging trends in the attitudes and practices of young people and their parents with regard to these choices?
To answer these questions, this new issue of the Revue internationale d'éducation de Sèvres explores the role played by families, teachers, guidance counselors and school administrators in complex contexts of ten very different countries.
Public authorities are also having to make choices that are subject to multiple constraints. What's more, almost everywhere private companies are flourishing, taking advantage of the complexity of guidance or the inadequacies of existing support to offer students and their families advice at crucial stages of their schooling.
Information on possible choices, whether overabundant or insufficient, is a new phenomenon which is raised as an issue in all the articles. This development can also lead to discrimination, which public authorities, in most cases, try to contain. This also highlights the importance of guidance education.
A dossier edited by Prof. Emeritus Thierry Chevaillier, Université de Bourgogne/IREDU
Case studies : Algeria, Australia, Burundi, China, Dubai, Estonia, France, Germany, Spain, Uruguay. Bibliography.
ISBN : 978-2-85420-640-1
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