{"id":2434,"date":"2016-11-16T23:03:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T23:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.utexas.edu\/black-male-education-research\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2016-11-16T23:03:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T23:03:44","slug":"education-occupation-of-fathers-and-parental-contributions-to-educational-expenses-as-factors-in-career-aspiration-among-male-jamaican-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/education-occupation-of-fathers-and-parental-contributions-to-educational-expenses-as-factors-in-career-aspiration-among-male-jamaican-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Education, Occupation of Fathers and Parental Contributions to Educational Expenses as Factors in Career Aspiration Among Male Jamaican Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lowe, G. A. (1966). Education, occupation of fathers and parental contributions to educational expenses as factors in career aspiration among male jamaican students.<em> The Journal of Negro Education, <\/em><em>35<\/em>(3), 230-236.<\/p>\n<p>Questionnaires &amp; interviews were used to obtain data from a sample of 142 students, 100 M&#8217;s &amp; 42 F&#8217;s, or 69.3`; of the F Jamaican student pop of 205 enrolled at Howard U for the first semester of the School yr 1961-62. The 98 M students studied here divided into 3 categories as far as career aspirations are concerned: healing professions, engineering, &amp; social or natural sciences. The fathers&#8217; educational attainment &amp; occupation, &amp; parental contributions to the sons&#8217; educational expenses proved to be significant factors. The fathers of the sons aspiring to careers in the healing professions were more educated than the other fathers, &amp; they were more likely to be professionals or proprietors. They contributed more money during the sons&#8217; first 2 yrs at Coll. MI. Duke.<\/p>\n<p>Full article can be found here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/2293942?pq-origsite=summon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lowe, G. A. (1966). Education, occupation of fathers and parental contributions to educational expenses as factors in career aspiration among male jamaican students. The Journal of Negro Education, 35(3), 230-236. Questionnaires &amp; interviews were used to obtain data from a sample of 142 students, 100 M&#8217;s &amp; 42 F&#8217;s, or&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/education-occupation-of-fathers-and-parental-contributions-to-educational-expenses-as-factors-in-career-aspiration-among-male-jamaican-students\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"underline\">read more<\/span>&nbsp;<i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84,34],"tags":[1797,404,1798,1799],"class_list":{"0":"post-2434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-familial-influences-fi","7":"category-occupationeducation-oe","8":"tag-1797","9":"tag-fathers","10":"tag-gilbert-antonio-lowe","11":"tag-jamaican","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}