Browsing by Subject "yrkesval"
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(2024)The future weighs heavily on many youths when it comes to choosing education and career paths. It’s becoming increasingly common for youths to take a gap year to contemplate their future educational opportunities. Parents wield significant influence over their children’s choice of education. Youths whose parents hold highly educated professions tend to gravitate towards academic pursuits. However, parental professions aren’t the sole influencers; their involvement and encouragement also play pivotal roles. The aim of this thesis is to explore the significance of parents’ occupations and leisure interests in youths’ thoughts and plans for the future. The research questions addressed in this thesis are: 1. How do parents’ professions and values manifest in youths’ thoughts regarding education and career choices? 2. What significance do hobbies and leisure interests hold in youths’ considerations of education and career paths? 3. What kind of changes regarding research questions 1 and 2 can be observed between grades 7 and 8? This thesis employs a qualitative approach, utilizing semi-structured interviews as the method of data collection. Five youths participated in the interviews, which were subjected to content analysis. The results suggest that youths contemplate their future extensively already in grades 7 and 8, with the majority having a career plan in mind. It’s evident that youths tend to consider professions aligned with their parents’ educational backgrounds. For most youths, the idea of turning their hobbies into careers isn’t particularly common, except for two respondents. Economic considerations are a significant part of youths’ thoughts, with varying opinions on the importance of money. They focus on highpaying professions, the cost of quality education, and opportunities to earn money in the short term. Despite having post-middle school plans, they exhibit varying attitudes towards school.
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(2015)When adolescents graduate from upper secondary school they face a turning-point when they shall make an occupational choice. The occupational choice can be problematic and an alternative is then to study at a folk high-school. The education programmes at the Finnish folk high-schools usually last one year and offer optional, educative and vocational education. The aim of this qualitative Master's Thesis is to investigate folk high-school students' occupational choice behaviour and their experiences of the process of the occupational choice. The aim of this is to clarify the importance of the folk high-school for adolescents' process of occupational choice. The scientific approach of this study is phenomenological, which means that the study aims to describe the informants' subjective experiences and descriptions regarding the research topic. Eleven students from Västra Nylands folkhögskola were interviewed in this study, and the collected data were analysed using theoretical interpretation. The interviews were conducted as theme interviews. The results of this study demonstrate that the reasons behind applying for the folk high-school were a need of a year off, career goals, will to become independent, pragmatically rational thinking and emotions, socialisation, and the education as a second-hand choice. Several of the informants experienced stress facing the occupational choice, but the year at the folk high-school helped them with the process as well as developed them knowledge-wise, personally and socially.
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