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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author VULPERHORST, Jonne Pieter (VANDERRIJST, Roeland Matthijs; AKKERMANN, Sanne Floor)
Title Dynamics in higher education choice : weighing one’s multiple interests in light of available programmes / Jonne Pieter Vulperhorst ; Roeland Matthijs van der Rijst ; Sanne Floor Akkerman
Publication year 2020
Source/Footnote In: Higher education. - 79 (2020) 6, S. 1001 - 1021
Inventory number 49432
Keywords Ausland : Niederlande : einzelne Hochschulen ; Ausland : Niederlande : Studium, Studenten, Lehre ; Studentenschaft : Studienverhalten
Abstract Recent studies have shown that students’ interests are decisive in making a substantiated higher education choice, yet do not indicate how students decide which interests they aim to pursue. This study aimed to find the considerations students have when weighing interests and higher education programmes. Thematic analysis was applied to uncover considerations based on semi-structured interviews with 20 Dutch high-school seniors. Students weighed their interests from an interest-to-programme perspective (contrasting interests and deciding which is most important for their future) and from a programme-to-interest perspective (evaluating how possible programmes reconcile with one’s interests). By applying both perspectives simultaneously, students dynamically considered which programmes and interests they wished to pursue. These findings imply that higher education choice theory and studies should acknowledge that the programmes and interests students consider are dependent on the feed forward of the considered interests on programmes and the feed back of considered programmes on interests. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)