Rethinking graduate employability in context : discourse, policy and practice /: discourse, policy and practice. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Päivi Siivonen, Ulpukka Isopahkala-Bouret, Michael Tomlinson, Maija Korhonen, Nina Haltia.
• Editors: Siivonen, Päivi; Isopahkala-Bouret, Ulpukka; (Associate professor), Tomlinson, Michael; Korhonen, Maija; Haltia, Nina
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Rethinking graduate employability in context, Päivi Siivonen, Ulpukka Isopahkala-Bouret, Michael Tomlinson, Maija Korhonen and Nina Haltia PART 1 Critical perspectives on the theory of employability 2. Graduate employability and its basis in possessive individualism, Leonard Holmes 3. Relative employability: Applying the insights of positional competition and conflict theories within the current higher education landscape, Ulpukka Isopahkala-Bouret and Gerbrand Tholen 4. Boosting employability through fostering an entrepreneurial mindset: Critical analysis of employability and entrepreneurship in EU policy documents, Hanna Laalo, Heikki Kinnari, Heikki Silvennoinen and Nina Haltia 5. The affective life of neoliberal employability discourse, Karen Handley and Jill Millar 6. Grounding employability in both agency and collective identity: an emancipatory agenda for higher education, Peter Kahn and Mariangela Lundgren-Resenterra PART 2 Employability and inequalities in graduate labour markets 7. Are graduates working in graduate occupations? Insights from the Portuguese labour market, Fátima Suleman, Maria da Conceição Figueiredo and Rita Henriques Guimarães 8. Institutionalisation of employability capitals in employment markets, Yuzhuo Cai 9. The vocational drift of French higher education and the employability of graduates, Claire Bonnard 10. Re-framing employability as a problem of perceived opportunities: The case of internships in a U.S. college using the Student Perceptions of Employment Opportunities (SPEO) framework, Matthew T. Hora 11. Working-Class Adult Students: Negotiating Inequalities in the Graduate Labour Market, Barbara Merrill & Scott Revers PART 3 Graduate employability as a career and identity process 12. Health as employability potential in business graduates' career imagination, Katri Komulainen and Maija Korhonen 13. Finnish university students constructing their ideal employable identities – a case study of Top Performing Experts, Inka Hirvonen, Päivi Siivonen and Katri Komulainen 14. Strategies undertaken by international graduates to negotiate employability, Thanh Pham 15. Employability as self-branding in job search games: A case of Finnish business graduates, Heli Mutanen, Maija Korhonen and Päivi Siivonen 16. Negotiating (employable) graduate identity – Small story approach in qualitative follow-up research, Päivi Siivonen, Maija Korhonen, Katri Komulainen, Heli Mutanen and Nina Haltia 17. Epilogue, Michael Tomlinson.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 331.11445; College graduates -- Employment; Employability
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031206535
• Related ISBNs: 9783031206528; 9783031206559
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• Access Rights: Open access.
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