Research project Following footprints of resilient youth: successful educational trajectories and transition into hig
This project examines how high achieving students decode school practices and embark on a successful educational career. The project aims to capture the mechanisms and factors that contributed the academic success of 52 students from households with high or low educational background, with parents with migrant or of non-migrant background.
High achievers in this study are students that have above the average score in the key subjects maths, the science subjects, Swedish and English, at the end of the first year of their secondary school experience.
Departing from this aim the proposed research project addresses the following research questions:
- What types of social resources are/were accessed by these students in order to achieve a successful educational career?
- How have these students’ mobilised support to enable them successfully embark on in their educational career?
- What kinds of obstacles have the students and parents encountered in this process and what strategies have they employed to overcome the obstacles?
- How do the students’ social resources interplay with the students’ specific background to enable their successful educational career?
The project is 4-year project, qualitative longitudinal, using student perspectives, repeated interviews, also with their significant others.
Project members
Project managers
Ali Osman
Senior lecturer
Members
Carina Carlhed Ydhag
Professor/Head of department
