ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes case study findings regarding a small group of high schools students maintained or changed aspirations for careers and the challenges and resources affecting them as they transitioned from high school to college. The Bridging Multiple Worlds Theory approach investigate in particular how adolescent youths from diverse backgrounds grapple with completing secondary school in light of their potential goal of attaining a college education. It has a strong ecocultural theory orientation. Life as Authoring theory draws on the literary theories of Bakhtin and the cultural historical developmental theory of Vygotsky. In our Pathways Model, self-attributed personality traits are represented as enduring ways of acting out personal values that permeate every pathways phase of self-analysis, decision making, actions to reach goals, and reaction to the outcome of action by self and others. The transition from high school to college for Latino and other youths is a dynamic adaptive process.
