Parents’ Education Levels and Youths’ Educational Strategies
Parents’ Education Levels and Youths’ Educational Strategies

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of influence of a family at choice by youth of educational strategy. Surveys of seniors are conducted in Novosibirsk and the Novosibirsk region. Results of polls have allowed differentiating families on the educational level of parents. This idea results from earlier studies on the role of the family in forming attitudes of the youth that allow them to develop their adaptation potential and which was tackled by the authors in their monograph “Sociocultural Adaptation of the Youth of the North” (Abramova, et all, 2011). Dependence between high education level of parents and a reference point of youth on receiving the higher education has been as a result revealed. As for parents with lower education their children are apt to have lower simpler ambitions for their future. The analysis of value orientations, as regards the choice of educational strategy, shows that all school graduates consider further education first of all as a possibility of further professional development. It has also been shown that differences in perception of the value of attaining postsecondary education are conditioned by youth’s different life attitudes which are formed to some extent by parents who have different levels of education.

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