Education and Employers are working with Northern Ireland’s Department of Education and Education Authority to gain a better understanding of children’s career aspirations and to explore what factors may be influencing their choices, and in turn limiting their ambitions.
Schools across Northern Ireland are being invited to take part in a Drawing the Future study, where children will be asked to draw what job they’d like to do when they grow up as well as answer questions to provide more insight into their future aspirations.
The Drawing the Future study helps to uncover the stereotypes children often hold around the jobs people do based on their gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic background. It also explores whether children can see the future relevance of what they are learning in the classroom. Drawing the Future has been conducted by Education and Employers in over 20 countries including New Zealand and Uganda.
