TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kenny, Maureen E.
TI  - Urban adolescents' constructions of supports and barriers to educational and career attainment
PY  - 2007///
KW  - Career development
KW  - Minority youth
KW  - Relational supports
KW  - Urban adolescents
KW  - Vocational barriers
N1  - Psychology
N2  - This study presents the educational and career goals and perceptions of supports and barriers related to these goals as described in semistructured interviews of 16 students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds attending 9th grade at an urban public high school in a large Northeastern city. Using consensual qualitative research (CQR) methodology (C. E. Hill et al., 2005), the authors identified categories and subcategories to students' perceptions of barriers and supports. The findings highlight students' understanding of how their proximal contexts serve potentially as both supports and barriers. Implications for educational and career interventions are discussed
ER  -