In this article, we analyse the narratives of Finnish young people regarding their educational choices for upper secondary education in a theoretical framework inspired by Bourdieu’s forms of capital and Skeggs’ concept of the classed value of self. Our data consist of interviews with 66 ninth-graders, produced in the Youth in Time research project. In the narratives, we identified six frames of choice between general upper secondary and vocational education and outside formal education. We also recognized that there was hesitation and various strategies that young people utilized in making their educational choices, based on their social and cultural capitals. Young people become aware of their value in the educational market through this process of making their choice. Their educational choices are complex and intertwined with gender, social class, social relations, racialization and locality.

在这篇文章中，我们在一个受布迪厄的资本形式和斯凯格斯的自我分类价值概念启发的理论框架中分析了芬兰年轻人关于他们高中教育选择的叙述。我们的数据包括对 66 名九年级学生的采访，这些采访是在青年时代研究项目中制作的。在叙述中，我们确定了普通高中和职业教育与非正规教育之间的六种选择框架。我们还认识到，年轻人在根据他们的社会和文化资本做出教育选择时，存在犹豫和各种策略。年轻人通过这个做出选择的过程意识到他们在教育市场中的价值。他们的教育选择很复杂，并且与性别交织在一起，