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The pursuit of post-secondary education

30 Mar 2009

Using the nationally representative longitudinal Youth in Transition Survey, this paper examines the argument that inferior educational outcomes of various visible minorities and immigrants can be attributed to their socio-economic disadvantages, while superior outcomes of other visible minorities is due to their cultural supports. The analyses document sizable inequalities in educational pathways of First Nations, visible minorities, and immigrants. However, neither structural location nor cultural attributes (nor both in conjunction) totally account for differences in their educational pathways nor can they be reduced to a simple pattern whereby structural disadvantages account for inferior pathways and cultural factors for superior ones.
higher education education politics economics school psychology canada indians of north america cultural identity culture factor analysis language minorities social sciences educational attainment college further education economic inequality college attendance logistic regression socio-economic status native peoples first nations cronbach's alpha cronbach’s alpha educational attainment in the united states visible minority dropping out ses

Authors

Thiessen, Victor

Pages
35
Published in
Vancouver, British Columbia

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