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Joel Paulin Mendoza

Enabling Young Filipinos to Dream Big and Achieve Bigger: Centering Youth Aspirations in Education Reform
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May 21, 2025
This study reveals that individual, familial, and community factors significantly shape the education, career, and social aspirations of young Filipinos. Across these aspirations, having good role models plays the strongest influence in forming higher levels of aspirations.
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