Does family have a role to play in one's academic career? What exactly does it do or does not?
The parents are saddled with the responsibility of offering guidance on career choice of their children.
The family tries to direct their parents toward specialization in what they believe is the interest of their child and what is very useful for him in the future .
Physical ,spiritual,emotional,financial,intellectual and other positive forms of support are necessary sir.
Family plays a major role to ground the individual and provide psychological, financial and emotional support.
Choosing a career is too stressing. Family can be the foundation a young student needs and not always is able to find by himself.
Vilemar
I received all of my degree away from my family in Iraq. Thus, I can't comment on your question properly.
Family support is fundamental in the academic development of a professional, professor or researcher; either of his original family (parents and siblings) or of his new family (wife and children); in terms of motivation, incentives, accompaniment, recognition and love.
Dear Anthony Baidoo, it is an interesting issue.
As family is the first school, it influences ones academic carrier in many ways. In most studies, family education has been identified as the single strongest correlate of children’s success in school, the number of years they attend school, and their success later in life. Because family education influences children’s learning both directly and through the choice of a school, we do not know how much of the correlation can be attributed to direct impact and how much to school-related factors.
Teasing out the distinct causal impact of family education is tricky, but given the strong association between parental education and student achievement in every industrialized society, the direct impact is undoubtedly substantial.
Please go through this interesting link and attachment to see the details of family influence in ones academic achievement and also carer.
http://educationnext.org/how-family-background-influences-student-achievement/
The time you spent away from them is a major support given by the family to support your academic career.
Family always play very important role in one's academic career. Family members guide to choose field of academic career as well give financial and emotional support. However when individual is not concerning about family in these cases family does not have any role.
How does family play a role in one's academic career ?
Family can influence a person's academic career through the following:
I fully agree with Dr Han and all members. I want to add:
Family circumstances also play very important role in one's academic career.
I am overwhelmed by your rich contributions respected Scientist.
Thank you so much
Regards
A. Baidoo
Family is our closest allies. Their impacts greatly affect the academic performance of its members. If parents put a positive spotlight on education and motivate their children to do same, they would walk that path. The successes of many Professors were largely as a result of the supportive family they enjoy!
The Coleman Report’s conclusions concerning the influences of home and family were at odds with the paradigm of the day. The politically inconvenient conclusion that family background explained more about a child’s achievement than did school resources ran contrary to contemporary priorities, which were focused on improving educational inputs such as school expenditure levels, class size, and teacher quality. Indeed, less than a year before the Coleman Report’s release, President Lyndon Johnson had signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act into law, dedicating federal funds to disadvantaged students through a Title 1 program that still remains the single largest investment in K–12 education, currently reaching approximately 21 million students at an annual cost of about $14.4 billion.
i think the role of the family is very important especially in the career of a woman scientific
Although in general, the family is essential in academic and scientific success, it is not always the case. The causative is very broad in this aspect, and success can be achieved without any family involvement, just as you can go to failure despite all the support you have. In the end, what we are is derived from the accumulation of endless personal decisions; of the permanent need to choose between A or B every second of our life.
Family is everything but where there are no families around, your good friends can also play such roles. It provide a platform for emotional stability, focus and love
The answer is affirmative Family is another school where children learnt a lot practically.
The academic environment in the family will promote academic career.
Family role in ones academic career can be positive or negative it all depends on the settings, overall family support should help ease the stresses associated with academic careers .
Thanks you all for respected RG scholars for your rich inputs
A. Baidoo
Family gives a conducive environment to carry out the required study and opportunity to attain the academic goal.
Young people form many of their attitudes about work and careers as a result of interactions with the family.
With no doubt, family play a big role in academic career. Morally, financially, and etc. Without their positive role, we won't be able to step forward.
Family role is positive if your family is a scientist
Family role is negative if your family is unscientific
Family is the big acadimic environnement where children learn from it the first concept in the life it's the basis of all academic formation received by the children
Family helps in building one's academic career by extending financial, moral and emotional support.
Family Role in Career Development. ERIC Digest
Family influence is an important force in preparing youth for their roles as workers. Young people form many of their attitudes about work and careers as a result of interactions with the family. Family background provides the basis from which their career planning and decision making evolve. However, within each family, the level of involvement can vary, offering both positive and negative influences. This Digest examines the research on family influences on career development and describes implications for practice.
THE INFLUENCE OF FAMILY BACKGROUND
"Family background factors found to be associated with career development include parents' socioeconomic status (SES), their educational level, and biogenetic factors such as physical size, gender, ability, and temperament" (Penick and Jepsen 1992, p. 208). In a study of the influences on adolescents' vocational development reported by Mortimer et al. (1992), the variable that had the most effect on educational plans and occupational aspirations was parental education.
Mortimer et al. also report that parents with postsecondary education tend to pass along its importance to their children--a finding supported by other studies. Montgomery (1992) notes that females talented in math viewed their career choices as reflective of interests that stemmed from early family influence and educational opportunities. Marso and Pigge (1994) found that the presence of teachers in the family was a significant factor influencing teacher candidates' decisions to teach. DeRidder (1990), however, points out that lower levels of parent education can retard adolescents' career development. "Being born to parents with limited education and income reduces the likelihood of going to college or achieving a professional occupational goal and essentially predetermines the child's likely vocational choice" (p. 4).
Family income is another aspect of family background that influences the career development of youth, especially for girls (Mortimer et al. 1992). One reason for this may be that families with limited economic resources tend to direct them first to the males of the family, giving less hope and encouragement for further education to the daughters in the family. Also, some parents--especially working class or lower-income parents--may hold values that place girls in the homemaker role and reflect less emphasis on occupational preparation (ibid.). Given this disposition, it is understandable that the self-efficacy of girls with respect to career opportunities is linked to the economic support they can expect to receive from their parents.
THE INFLUENCE OF FAMILY PROCESSES
Although much of the research on the role of family in vocational and career development has focused on family background, the investigation of family processes viewed in relation to life roles offers additional insight into the influences of the family. Family processes of interaction, communication, and behavior influence what the child learns about work and work experiences. Attitudes about school and work, educational and career goals and aspirations, and values have a long-term impact on a youth's career choices, decisions, and plans. "Parents as daily models provide cultural standards, attitudes, and expectations and, in many ways, determine the eventual adequacy of self-acceptance and confidence, of social skills and of sex roles. The attitudes and behaviors of parents while working or discussing their work is what the children respond to and learn" (DeRidder 1990, p. 3).
Through the process of educating their children about life roles, parents can influence the employability skills and values that children subsequently adopt. Grinstad and Way (1993) report one mother's message to her daughter on the theme of becoming self-sufficient:
You have to have a way to take care of your family.
And she (her mother) says you cannot depend on a man.
And she said you have to think about number one and
that's you. And she said how are you going to make a
living, how are you going to support your children, if
you don't have some kind of training. (p. 50)
The interaction of many individual variables in family process is a significant factor to consider in studying family influence on career development. Middleton and Loughead (1993) suggest that adolescents' career aspirations be examined from an interactionist perspective rather than a unilateral process of influence, "focusing on the context and situations in which adolescents' career development occurs" (p. 163).
ETHNIC MINORITY PARENTS AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Parents from certain minority groups have a great influence on the educational and occupational decisions of both boys and girls in the family. Two very different examples are Mexican American and Korean parents. Clayton et al. (1993) found that "Mexican American parents want more education for their children than their children want for themselves" (p. 4). This is especially significant from a population that typically is undereducated and has high unemployment and dropout rates and low occupational status (ibid.).
Although the aspirations Mexican American parents hold for their children may be high, continuing education is often unavailable due to lack of funds. In fact, "50 percent of the 8th and 12th graders and 55 percent of the community college students" in Clayton et al.'s (1992) study cited lack of funds as a primary factor in their plans for continuing education (p. 36). Mexican American parents should be made aware of the availability of financial aid that could support their children's continuing education.
Whereas Mexican American parents are focused on the role of continuing education in the career development process, Korean parents focus on career selection. "The strong desire of Korean immigrants for their children to be professionals and earn money and prestige is conveyed either in a rather demanding form or in a more subtle form that is just as clear" (Kim 1993, p. 237). The pressure to choose certain careers is often initiated when the child is quite young. Stories by college students of Korean descent, reported by Kim, confirm that their career choices both "explicitly and implicitly reflect the cultural model of success their parents share" (p. 239).
One student described how, when he was still young, his father announced at a potluck dinner that "Tim will be a lawyer and Don will be a doctor." Another student described how her father introduced each member of their family to his guests by stating what career each would pursue before any of them had made a career choice: "Ron, the future doctor; Ben, who will be an engineer before you know it, and Carrie, who is going into business" (p. 239). "As he announces the children's career plans proudly in public and as the guests at the party recognize and envy his success, the Korean immigrants' cultural model of success is also recognized, reinforced, and transmitted" (ibid.). As happens in other cultures, Korean parents distinguish between boys and girls in the careers they assign to their children. "Girls can choose careers that are considered less stressful and less demanding and that have more flexible schedules so that they can combine families with careers" (p. 241).
NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF PARENTAL INFLUENCE
Middleton and Loughead (1993) present three categories to describe types of parental involvement in adolescents' career development: (1) positive involvement, (2) noninvolvement, and (3) negative involvement. The greatest anxiety adolescents feel about their career decisions or exploration, quite understandably, is in response to parents' negative involvement.
Parents in the "negative involvement" category are often controlling and domineering in their interactions with their children. The children of such parents often pursue the careers selected by their parents rather than those they desire so as not to disappoint their parents or go against their wishes. Likewise, they feel a strong sense of frustration and guilt when they do not meet their parents' expectations.
The burden of following a parent's narrowly defined expectations of success has resulted in "mental health problems, estranged parent-child relationships, or in socially delinquent behaviors" (ibid., p. 243). Penick and Jepsen (1992) note that "adolescents from enmeshed families may have difficulty mastering career development tasks because they are unable to distinguish their own from parental goals and expectations" (p. 220). Disengagement of family and adolescents has similarly negative effects. "Adolescents from disengaged families may lack familial support and interaction, resulting in limits on self-knowledge and task orientation that interferes with mastery of career development tasks" (ibid.).
IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE
Structuring or guiding parental involvement in adolescent career development is increasingly seen as an important element of a school's career counseling. "Previous research has suggested that educational institutions are not the only source of learning related to occupational choice and enactments in this society. It has been found that the family plays an important role in the transmission of values such as independence, ambition, career orientation and actual career choice" (Grinstad and Way 1993, p. 67).
DeRidder (1990) suggests that counselors work directly with parents, collaborating with them and helping them to improve their effectiveness in guiding their children. He encourages parents not only to communicate about work and careers with their children, but to show faith in their children's abilities to be successful, providing them with encouragement and information. "They should help their children learn that basic work attitudes of promptness, respect, responsibility, and interest in schoolwork are expected both at home and at school" (ibid., p. 4).
Career development professionals can help parents by providing them with information and support. Middleton and Loughead (1993) recommend that counselors meet with parents "individually or collectively to disseminate information on how to facilitate their adolescents' career development and familiarize them with career resource materials" (p. 166).
Within the school setting, Grinstad and Way (1993) suggest that "vocational education at all levels should be placed within a contextual framework where the work of the world and the work of the family are integrated and explored simultaneously" (p. 67). By increasing communication between home and school regarding career development, it is possible that the positive aspects of family influence can be enhanced and the negative aspects can be offset, improving the career development outcomes of the workers of the future.
reference/https://www.ericdigests.org/1996-3/family.htm
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The family often plays an important role in determining and building a future professional life for their children, but not always. The surrounding environment and society also have a major influence in changing their attitudes.
That the family is of paramount importance to any society, as it plays a prominent and effective role in the upbringing of children and the creation of a decent and dignified foundation on sound foundations.
The family is considered to be the first educational, social and cultural facility that embraces the son within the home, and the first school that enables him to acquire the necessary principles of knowledge, the foundations of proper education, and a good code of ethics. Accordingly, we believe that the civilized nations have given great attention and attention to the family environment, the care and care of children and the provision of the appropriate environment for their development, a fully integrated origin in all respects.
Family forms the greatest source of inspiration for its members in the world of academics. If there's one entity to impress by academic performance who will greatly encourage/appreciate my achievements thereto, it's FAMILY!!!
The family can influence the selection of the academic career of their sons through: - The son shall specialize in the same field of professional work as one of his parents. - The family affects the field of professional specialization of the son through his retirement in a desirable specialization in the community. - The son chooses an area of professional work away from the specialization of his parents because the specialization of the parents in it effort or specialization is not useful in society.
The family plays a great role in one's life career as a whole and not the academic career alone.
Absolutely none in my experience although clearly they do in other contexts.
As for my experience, without support my family it would be impossible to complete PhD thesis and to build academic career. I'm very grateful for this.
Family play important roles in career in academics through their financial support, encouragement and prayer
Family may play positive role for academic career , however not in all cases.If family can support person in his/hers academic activities, of course this is great. But academic activities need time, actually entire life and certain degree of asceticism. And if person should sacrifice himself/herself for family, it became obstacle in the way of academic success.Even overwhelming happiness sometime might not be favorable for academic career.
I have often wondered if certain amounts of money, social advantage plays a role in academic success-perhaps they do.
Sure family play important role in academic career through :
-Help
-Scientific ambience.
-Support.
Family is a kind of backbone for any success in life, and if we are specific about academic's than:
In my case, I wouldn't have pursued my a PhD in engineering without my father asking me to do it. He was also the one who asked me to reconsider pursuing my first love to become an Airforce pilot!. Amir
I agree with Mariam Chkhartishvili Family may play positive or negative role for academic career , however not in all cases. From my experience The main role is the economic and political situation and government vision . every one wish to be a doctor or business man, pilot.... etc. At the end the judge to the country environment.
Family can be a source of support often. They can help financially through college. If your elders are highly educated it means they value education and will support you through your education. They can also be role models as to the field of study providing guidance.
Family can be a source of hindrance as well. One loses some of the freedom if you are living with them and going to college. Sometimes parents may not see the need for higher education since they themselves eked out a living with minimum education.
Parental support is always considered to be significantly important in developing the sense of the confidence in the overall educational achievements of the students.
Parents having a successful career in research pave the way for others.
I work hard because I know that my success will make them very happy.
Family is the fundamental and important structure of the society that has an important role in one's life and in the society. Family can influence ones choice of career and provide significant support to their children both financially and morally throughout the academic career.
By continuous encouragement and moral and physical support given to their sons and daughters. The family works as a guide that gives a lot of advice which help a lot in making the correct choice of future careers relevant to the potentials and abilities, specializations and interests of sons and daughters.
Certainly my family had an influence in the choice of my career
Best Regards Anthony Baidoo
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