Educational Choices in Adolescence: The Decision-Making Process, Antecedents, and Consequences
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The present chapter focuses on how adolescents make educational choices, that is, on their decision-making process with regard to educational choices. We first introduce the nature and importance of educational decisions during adolescence. We then discuss the link between educational decisions on the one hand and occupational decisions, career decisions, and career development on the other, followed by a description of major theoretical models of career decisions. The decision-making approach is proposed as a general framework for the study of the process of making career-related decisions. This framework is used in the remainder of the chapter to discuss adolescents’ educational decision-making and its antecedents and consequences. We end the chapter by presenting some practical implications for counselling adolescents during the educational decision-making process that follow from the research findings