ISBN:
9789400741980
,
1280996781
,
9781280996788
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XII, 274 p. 5 illus, digital)
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. Experience of school transitions
Keywords:
Education, Higher
;
Education
;
Education
;
Education, Higher
;
Schule
;
Schulabgänger
;
Berufsausbildung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Schulübergang
Abstract:
Leaving school, whether to move on to training, work or education, is a fundamental rite of passage the world over. This volume draws on a wealth of international sources and studies in its analysis of the transitions young students make as they move on from their secondary schooling. It identifies how these transitions are planned for by policymakers, enacted by school staff and engaged with by students themselves. With data from a range of nations with advanced industrial economies, the book delineates how the policies relating to these transitions need to be conceived and implemented, how the transitions themselves are negotiated by young people, and how they might be shaped to meet the varied needs of the students they are designed to help. The authors argue that the relationship, often complex, between what schools provide in the way of preparation, and the ways in which students take up what is on offer, is the crucial nexus for understanding the experience of transitions by young people, and for enhancing that experience. With a host of case studies of transition policies themselves, as well as evaluative data on how they were received by the school leavers whom they were designed for, this valuable addition to the educational literature deserves to be read by all those with roles in preparing the young for their journey into a complex adult world full of pitfalls as well as opportunity.
Description / Table of Contents:
Experience of School Transitions; Preface; References; Contents; Part I: School Transitions: Overview, Policy Orientations and Theorisations; Chapter 1: Experiences of School Transitions: Policies, Practice and Participants; Productive Transitions from Schooling; Conceptualising School Transitions as Affordances and Engagement; Bases of Affordances and Engagement; Students' Perceptions of School and Community Affordances and Personal Efforts in Transitions; School Affordances; Community Engagement; Personal Action and Agency
Description / Table of Contents:
Interrelationship Amongst School Affordances, Community Engagement and Student ActionReferences; Chapter 2: Reconciling the System World with the Life Worlds of Young Adults: Where Next for Youth Transition Policies?; Reconciling Life and Personal Worlds; Transition Behaviours and Employment Outcomes; Agency and Feelings of Control in Human Lives; The Shaping of Youth Transitions: Three Dimensions; Bounded Agency: Focusing on How Individual Agency Can Be Supported Without Losing Sight of the Structuring Effects of Contexts; 'Life Chances' and Beliefs About Opportunity
Description / Table of Contents:
Experiencing Working Life and Learning at WorkPolicy Implications; Summary and Conclusions; References; Chapter 3: Bridging School and Work: A Person-in-Context Model for Enabling Resilience in At-Risk Youth; Youth, Education, and Employment; School-to-Work Transition; At-Risk Youth and Resilience; Constructing the Model; Person-in-Context Model; Individual Domain; Social-Cultural Domain; Economic-Political Domain; Intersections of Domains; Utility of the Model; References; Part II: Imperatives for and Practices of Transitions: International Perspectives
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 4: The American Shortcut to VET: Global Policy Borrowing for the Post-16 Educational ArenaIntroduction: College-for-All?; Career Pathways; The Board Exam Model; The OECD and Policy Borrowing; Learning for Jobs; Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 5: Access, Coping and Relevance of Education in Youth Transitions: The German Transition System Between Labour Society and Knowledge Society; Introduction; Standing on the Shoulders of Giants? The Heritage of Luther and Bismarck in Contemporary German Youth Transitions; Key Problem Areas: Unemployed Youth and Lack of Qualified Labour
Description / Table of Contents:
Repairing or Reforming? Policy Trends and DiscoursesYouth Transitions in Germany in Comparison: The Model of Transition Regimes; Conclusions: Pedagogical and Political Dilemmas; References; Chapter 6: Making the Transition to Post-school Life: The Canadian Situation; Introduction; Labour Market and Education Contexts; School-Work Transition Policy Programs in Canada; At-Risk Students: Staying at School; Youth Apprenticeships: Helping Young People and Addressing Pressing Labour Shortages; Widening Participation in Higher Education
Description / Table of Contents:
Why Is the Transition to Post-school Life So Persistently Problematic?
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-4198-0
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