Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Science Education and Art Appreciation (SEAA 2022)

Identify the Reasons of Students’ Choices for Majors and Courses

Authors
Ruiyi Cheng1, Jiarui Gao2, *, Hanzhi Zhang3
1School of Early-Childhood Education, Nanjing Xiaozhuang University, Nanjing, 211171, China
2Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
3School of Education, Changchun Normal University, Changchun, 130000, China
*Corresponding author. Email: jgao2254@uni.sydney.edu.au
Corresponding Author
Jiarui Gao
Available Online 19 November 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-05-3_20How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Occupational segregation; Gender; Course settings; Majors; Choice
Abstract

The future careers of students aged 15 to 24 are more or less affected by the school’s course settings and majors, and students often have such problems that they have to choose some courses or majors. As a result, this phenomenon often comes up with gender inequality, which leads to occupational segregation. This study explored the reasons for students’ choices of majors and courses. This research can help scholars better understand the considerations for students choosing majors and courses. This article analyzed 27 articles selected from Google Scholar. In a conclusion, the study found that different countries have different courses and majors to let students separate from each other by gender. Furthermore, students themselves will choose different courses or majors because of some personal factors and environmental factors like levels of competence, self-efficacy, students’ vocational interests, and family reasons.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Science Education and Art Appreciation (SEAA 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
19 November 2022
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-494069-05-3_20
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-05-3_20How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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