Le choix du BTS: Entre construction et encadrement des aspirations des bacheliers d'origine populaire.

Orange, Sophie

Selection and professionalization are now presented as possible answers to the high failures and dropout rates at the undergraduate level. This article studies the development of academic aspirations and the recruitment of training which, just as senior engineers departments, receives an important amount of working-class technology and vocational graduates. It particularly analyses the entries into those fields of study as a double product of the academic ambitions of working-class graduates and the specific recruiting mechanisms frameworks.

FRANCE; HIGHER education of the working class; STUDENT aspirations; STUDENT recruitment; UNDERGRADUATES; HIGHER education; TECHNOLOGY students; VOCATIONAL school students; PROFESSIONALIZATION; COLLEGE dropouts; ACADEMIC ability

Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, 2010, Issue 183, p32

0335-5322

Academic Journal

10.3917/arss.183.0032