This international survey offers an opportunity to explore who primary-age children ideally want to become, and what shapes (and often limits) their career aspirations and dreams for the future.
These studies have emphasised that children’s aspirations are often shaped, moulded and restricted by gender stereotyping, socio-economic background and, importantly, who they know. These factors can, and do, go on to influence the academic effort children exert in certain lessons, the subjects they choose to study and the jobs they end up pursuing.