Youth Identities, Education and Employment Exploring Post-16 and Post-18 Opportunities, Access and Policy /

• Main Author: Hoskins, Kate (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Policy and Practice in the Classroom
• Subjects: Education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Education.; Higher Education.; Career Skills.; Study and Learning Skills.

This book investigates how policy, family background, social class, gender and ethnicity influence young people’s post-16 and post-18 employment and education access. It draws on existing literature, alongside new data gathered from a case study in a UK state secondary school, to examine how policy...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. The Changing Landscape of Opportunity for Young People
• Chapter 2. The Changing Context of Further and Higher Education and Youth Employment
• Chapter 3. Post-16 Educational Choices and Decision-Making: The Role of Policy and Identity
• 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: Challenging the Status Quo.