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  title info:
    title: Rethinking School-to-Work Transitions in Australia
    sub title: Young People Have Something to Say
  name:
    name part: Down, Barry.
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      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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  name:
    name part: Smyth, John.
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: Robinson, Janean.
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      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 174 p. 3 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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. Rethinking school-to-work transitions: young people have something to say is a wonderful book! It asks those kinds of difficult questions that are necessary for addressing the troubling school-work transitions many young people from marginalised backgrounds face. In particular consideration is given to whether schools continue to be 'savage sorting machines' or whether they can be rethought in ways that support young people from such backgrounds in socially just ways. To engage in such a rethinking Barry Down, John Smyth and Janean Robinson do what might seem obvious - but is rarely done, and rarely done so well - they consult with young people. The young people in this book provide significant evidence of the ways in which many young people are being failed by society - through unfriendly schooling experiences and a precarious employment market. However, at the same time the book captures the hope that many of those interviewed maintain for their futures. …
  table of contents: 1 Introduction -- 2 Doing Critical Ethnography -- 3 Growing up in Neoliberal Times -- 4 Rethinking Class and Deficit Thinking -- 5 Transitioning to Adulthood -- 6 Reinvigorating Pedagogy -- 7 Giving all Students a Fair Go -- 8 Understanding Young Lives -- 9 Conclusion -- References -- About the Authors -- Subject Index.
  note: by Barry Down, John Smyth, Janean Robinson.
  subject:
    topic: Schools
  subject:
    topic: Educational sociology
  subject:
    topic: Higher education
  subject:
    topic: Curriculums (Courses of study)
  subject:
    topic: Education-Curricula
  subject:
    topic: Professional education
  subject:
    topic: Vocational education
  subject:
    topic: Schools and Schooling
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Education
  subject:
    topic: Higher Education
  subject:
    topic: Curriculum Studies
  subject:
    topic: Professional & Vocational Education
  classification: LB1-3640
  classification: 371
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Critical Studies of Education ; 6
  identifier: 9783319722696
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72269-6
  record info:
    record creation date: 180108
    record change date: 20191023172433.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-72269-6