ABSTRACT This article focuses on rural Australian students’ decisions to pursue higher education, and compares metropolitan and rural higher education statistics, using select qualitative narratives to highlight rural subjectivities. By analysing school students’ belonging process, this article begins to uncover the depth of the perceived influence of the community on its youth in relation to their university plans. Showcasing six selected student interviews from a sample of 25 interviewed rural Queensland students, findings show the community is perceived to have some influence on interviewed students’ decisions about higher education, however, this influence is foreshadowed by the family. Students are exposed to a general sense of community values simply by being part of that community, and more implicitly through school. Bourdieu’s habitus, and specifically Wacquant’s primary and secondary habitus are used to provide an understanding of the relationship among the community in which students live, their families, and their university aspirations.

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感知社区对澳大利亚农村学生高等教育决策的影响：探索社区、学校和家庭

摘要 本文重点关注澳大利亚农村学生接受高等教育的决定，并比较都市和农村高等教育统计数据，使用精选的定性叙述来突出农村主体性。通过分析学生的归属过程，本文开始揭示社区对其青年的感知影响与他们的大学计划相关的深度。从 25 名接受采访的昆士兰农村学生样本中展示了 6 份选定的学生采访，结果显示社区被认为对接受采访的学生对高等教育的决定有一些影响，然而，这种影响是由家庭所预示的。学生只是通过成为社区的一部分，更隐含地通过学校，就可以了解社区价值观。布迪厄惯习，