{"id":55177,"date":"2024-11-19T10:41:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T01:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rihe.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/?p=55177"},"modified":"2024-12-11T13:14:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T04:14:45","slug":"rihe-open-seminar-12-december-2024-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rihe.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/en\/2024\/11\/rihe-open-seminar-12-december-2024-en\/","title":{"rendered":"[RIHE Open Seminar] \u201cThe Role of Imagined Futures in Gendered Educational Trajectories: Adolescents\u2019 Expectations and Uncertainty in Japanese Selective High Schools\u201d, 12 December 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2605Registration has been closed.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are pleased to announce that an open seminar will be held as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Date<br \/>14:30\u201316:00 Thursday, 12 December 2024 (JST)<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Theme<br \/>The Role of Imagined Futures in Gendered Educational Trajectories: Adolescents\u2019 Expectations and Uncertainty in Japanese Selective High Schools<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Venue<br \/>Hybrid (In-Person &amp; Online)<br \/>* Maximum Capacity<br \/>a. In-Person: 15 people\u3000 <a href=\"https:\/\/oc.intelligent-hotel.co.jp\/t_fronts\/access\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Hiroshima Office Centre<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>b. Online (zoom): Unlimited<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Language<br \/>Japanese<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0MC<br \/>FAN, Yizhou (Hiroshima University)<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Lecturer<br \/>UCHIKOSHI, Fumiya (Harvard University)<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Abstract<br \/>In Japan, despite women\u2019s improved access to higher education, still only one in five applicants to the nation\u2019s top university are women, which is extremely lower than the female share in selective institutions in other wealthier countries. In this study, I focus on the role of high school students\u2019 \u201cimagined futures\u201d in the context of highly uncertain admission and diversified higher education characterized by the expansion in less-selective institutions and vocational curricular programs, to provide explanations for the underrepresentation of women in Japanese selective universities. Specifically, I draw the data from qualitative interviews with high school seniors and teachers in selective high schools where almost everyone goes to college. In contrast to the expectation that students in these selective high schools are homogeneous in terms of meritocratic aspirations, I found significant gender differences in \u201caiming high.\u201d I also found that the gender gap in aspirations to selective colleges is related to gendered imagined futures. Specifically, female students, who are more likely to be clear about their future career plans and expect career interruptions due to family events, tend to think about their educational choice based on narrowly defined occupational plans and consider vocational education and marketable skills more than other criteria (e.g., selectivity or prestige) in their school selection processes. By contrast, male students\u2019 imagined futures are characterized by what Johnson-Hanks (2005) called \u201cjudicious opportunism,\u201d wherein they tend to be less clear about their future career pathways and possess a belief that the prestige of the school they will eventually attend affects their options when they graduate and enter the labor market. I discuss cultural, demographic, and institutional sources that maintain and exacerbate the gender divergence in planned educational trajectories by narrowing the universe of possible futures available for women. By doing so, this study provides theoretical insights into how gendered imagined futures and macro-level contexts combine to allocate men and women with similar academic potential into different educational and occupational trajectories, with implications for inequality in higher education in other sociocultural contexts.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Note<br \/>\u30fbParticipation fee is free.<br \/>\u30fbRegistration is open noon on Wednesday, 12 December 2024 (JST).<br \/>\u30fbInternet access and a camera\/microphone device required to participate online.<br \/>\u30fbUse your full name as your personal meeting ID when you enter the meeting room. If you do not, you may not be allowed to enter the meeting room.<br \/>\u30fbRecording\/screenshots not allowed.<br \/>\u30fbThe meeting URL will be emailed to you separately by the day before the meeting. If you do not receive the e-mail, please contact us at k-kokyo(at)office.hiroshima-u.ac.jp<br \/>*Replace (at) with @<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2605Registration has been closed. We are pleased to announce that an open seminar will be held as follows: \u25a0Date14:30\u201316:00 Thursday, 12 December 2024 (JST) \u25a0ThemeThe Role of Imagined Futures in Gendered Educational Trajectories: Adolescents\u2019 Expectations and Uncertainty in Japanese Selective High Schools \u25a0VenueHybrid (In-Person &amp; Online)* Maximum Capacitya. In-Person: 15 people\u3000 Hiroshima Office Centreb. Online (zoom): Unlimited \u25a0LanguageJapanese \u25a0MCFAN, Yizhou (Hiroshima University) \u25a0LecturerUCHIKOSHI, Fumiya (Harvard University) \u25a0AbstractIn Japan, despite women\u2019s improved access to higher education, still only one in five applicants to the nation\u2019s top university are women, which is extremely lower than the female share in selective institutions in other wealthier countries. 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