Overview
- Locates young people’s lives in the context of broader shifts in the global economy
- Creates an alternative set of pedagogical possibilities to support all young people
- Focuses on the role of schooling in the school-to-work transition
- Illuminates the relationship between macro and micro levels of analysis
Part of the book series: Critical Studies of Education (CSOE, volume 6)
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About this book
This book draws on the stories of thirty-two young Australians to identify the barriers and obstacles they face in ‘getting a job’ in precarious times and from their vantage point. It maps the kinds of educational policies and practices that need to be created and more widely sustained to assist their career aspirations and life chances. It is timely in terms of contributing to an alternative set of possibilities based on a commitment to the principles and values of social justice, respect, trust, care, democracy and citizenship. In constructing an alternative vision and practice for education and training it advocates the right of all young people to have a say in these broader public debates.  In pursuing this agenda, it deliberately sets out to listen to what young people themselves have to say with a view to interrupting the way things are. In other words, the book seeks to identify and explain the dreams, desires and aspirations of young people with a view to creating a new imaginary and socially just future.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking School-to-Work Transitions in Australia
Book Subtitle: Young People Have Something to Say
Authors: Barry Down, John Smyth, Janean Robinson
Series Title: Critical Studies of Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72269-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72268-9Published: 30 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89164-4Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72269-6Published: 08 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2543-0467
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0475
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 174
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Schools and Schooling, Sociology of Education, Higher Education, Curriculum Studies, Professional & Vocational Education