Choosing to study geography and the career aspirations of future graduates and postgraduates

Resnik Planinc, Tatjana (author), Stefanovski, Sašo (author)

Several factors are bound to influence a young person’s decision to study a particular study programme, including his or her interests and commitment, abilities and skills, career prospects, family expectations, social pressure and peer influence, the information and advice available to him or her and financial constraints. To find out what factors contribute to adolescents’ decision to study geography and the career aspirations of future graduates and postgraduates, a survey was conducted in 2017 and 2020 at the Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana involving a total of 155 students in their first year of the first cycle and the first and the second year of the second cycle. The results will be of great help in the further development of the geography study, as knowledge of the factors influencing their decisions to study, as well as their career aspirations and expectations, will allow us to understand the low enrolment figures in geography studies in recent years (which are not comparable to those of the past in all three Slovenian departments of geography) and to find po-tential solutions or ways to improve the current situation.

• Language: English
• Keywords: geographical education, geography studies, career aspirations, Slovenia
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication date: 01.01.2023
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 179-211
• Numbering: [Št.] 59
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-164546
• UDC: 91:37.016(497.4)
• ISSN on article: 0354-0596
• DOI: 10.4312/dela.59.179-211
• COBISS.SI-ID: 181336579
• Publication date in RUL: 30.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Dela
• Publisher: Oddelek za geografijo Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, Oddelek za geografijo Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 0354-0596
• COBISS.SI-ID: 23805442

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Odločitev za študij geografije ter poklicne aspiracije bodočih diplomantov in magistrantov

Abstract

Na odločitev mladostnika za določen študij zagotovo vplivajo številni dejavniki, med katerimi lahko izpostavimo predvsem njegove interese in predanost nečemu, sposobnosti in veščine, karierne možnosti, družinska pričakovanja, socialni pritisk in vpliv vrstnikov, informacije, ki so mu na voljo, in svetovanje, ki ga je deležen, ter finančne omejitve. Z namenom ugotoviti, kaj vse botruje odločitvi mladostnikov za študij geografije in kakšne so poklicne aspiracije bodočih diplomantov in magistrantov, smo leta 2017 in 2020 na Oddelku za geografijo FF UL izvedli raziskavo, v kateri je skupno sodelovalo 155 študentov prvih letnikov prve in druge stopnje ter drugih letnikov druge stopnje. Rezultati nam bodo v veliko pomoč pri nadaljnjem razvoju študija geografije, saj nam poznavanje dejavnikov, ki vplivajo na njihove odločitve za študij, ter njihovih poklicnih želja in pričakovanj omogoča razumeti nizke številke vpisa na študij geografije v zadnjih letih (ki na vseh treh slovenskih oddelkih za geografijo niso primerljive s preteklimi) ter poiskati potencialne rešitve oziroma pot k izboljšanju trenutne situacije.

• Keywords: šolska geografija, študij geografije, poklicne aspiracije, Slovenija