Youth identities, education and employment : exploring post-16 and post-18 opportunities, access and policy /: exploring post-16 and post-18 opportunities, access and policy. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kate Hoskins.
• Authors: Hoskins, Kate
• Contents: Youth Identities, Education and Employment; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Tables; 1 The Changing Landscape of Opportunity for Young People; Graduation, Graduation, Graduation; Themes of the Book; Economic, Social and Policy Context; The Empirical Study; Theoretical Framework; Researching Identity; Overview of Chapters; Chapter 2 -- The Changing Context of Further and Higher Education and Youth Employment; Chapter 3 -- Post-16 Educational Choices and Decision-Making: Opportunities and Challenges. Chapter 4 -- Post-18 Educational Choices: 'Our Students Need to Avoid the easyJet Version of Universities'Chapter 5 -- Alternative Possibilities and Pathways: Youth Employment and Apprenticeships in a Graduate World; Chapter 6 -- The Contemporary Context of Youth Participation and Identities: Towards Challenging the Status Quo; Concluding Remarks; Notes; 2 The Changing Context of Further and Higher Education and Youth Employment; Introduction; The Changing Policy Context in England: The Influence of Neoliberalism; Neoliberalism and Further Education: Cuts to Financial Support. Neoliberalism and Higher Education: University Tuition FeesThe Widening Higher Education Participation Agenda; Higher Education Tuition Fees: The Situation in Greece and Spain; Youth Un/Employment in England; Youth Un/Employment in Greece and Spain; Concluding Remarks: The Changing Content of Further Education, Higher Education and the Youth Employment Market; Note; 3 Post-16 Educational Choices and Decision-Making: The Role of Policy and Identity; Introduction; The Changing Further Education Policy Landscape: Removal of EMA; Removal of EMA: The Teachers' Perspectives. Gender and Post-16 Subject Choice: 'Stats Is the Girlie Version of Maths'Social Class and Post-16 Subject Choice: 'There's a Lot of Council Estates Around Here, but Last Year, There Were Girls Who Had Mini Coopers with Private Number Plates'; Ethnicity and Post-16 Subject Choices; Concluding Remarks: Policy, Identity and Post-16 Pathways; 4 Post-18 Educational Choices: 'Our Students Need to Avoid the easyJet Version of Universities'; Introduction; Planning University: The Role of the School and Teachers; Planning to Attend an Elite University: Value for Money? Planning University: Costs and ConcernsPlanning University: Family Expectations and Influences; Planning University: Doing It for Yourself; Identity and University Courses; Identity and University Courses: The Influence of Gender; Identity and University Courses: The Influence of Ethnicity; Identity and University Courses: The Influence of Social Class; Concluding Remarks: Choosing University: Widening Participation and Social Justice Concerns; Note; 5 Alternative Possibilities and Pathways: Youth Employment and Apprenticeships in a Graduate World; Introduction.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 331.3470941; Education; Youth -- Great Britain; Education, Higher -- Great Britain; Youth -- Employment -- Great Britain; Education and state; ducation and state; Educational sociology; Education, Higher; Career education; Study Skills; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations; Education; Education and state; Education, Higher; Educational sociology; Youth; Youth -- Employment; Education -- Philosophy & Social Aspects; Education -- Higher; Education -- Counseling -- Vocational Guidance; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Education -- Study Skills; Education; Higher & further education, tertiary education; Careers guidance; Sociology; Study & learning skills: general; Education -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General; Educational strategies & policy; Great Britain; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137352927; 1137352922
• Related ISBNs: 1137352914; 9781137352910
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.