Unemployed Youth and Social Exclusion in Europe

Learning for Inclusion?

Susan Warner Weil, Danny Wildemeersch, Barry Percy-Smith (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2005
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7546-4130-8 (ISBN)

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This book confronts readers with questions emerging from the 'gap' between EU aspirations to reduce youth unemployment without increasing social exclusion - and what is actually happening in practice. Aimed at a diverse readership, it is based on a three year European Union (EU) project into education, training, guidance and employment (ETG) programmes for young adults across six countries. Insights are grounded in the lives and stories of disadvantaged young adults, and of those who work with them, bringing to life unintended impacts of well intended interventions. The authors consider the influence of shifting political and pedagogical ideologies in the EU on local practices and young peoples’ lives and choices. They also consider the impact of policy and performance management discourses ’on the ground’. This work uses rigorous yet innovative narrative forms to invite readers into a ’whole system’ inquiry into these complexities. Unemployed Youth and Social Exclusion in Europe will make an important contribution to reflecting critically on current policy and practice, as well as to academic understandings of unemployed youth, and restrictive and reflexive approaches to learning for inclusion across Europe.

Susan Warner Weil is a Professor at the University of the West of England, UK. Danny Wildemeersch is a Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Dr Theo Jansen lectures at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Contents: Foreword, Karen Evans. Encounters: Orientations; The research wellspring for this book; Three starting stories: young Europeans being 'Activated' for employment; Youth transition research: changing metaphors and languages in a globalizing world. Lenses On The Shifting Landscape Of 'Activation': Activation practices: an emerging topography; Working-identities in (com)motion; Agency, empowerment, and activation: balancing contradictions; Re-vis(ion)ing professional practice with young unemployed adults. Paradoxes And Possibilities: Policy, Practice And Research: Making the bridge: introduction; Ideologies and policy discourses: impacts from 'On High' and 'Afar'; Restrictive and reflexive activation discourses explored; Learning and improvisation at the policy-practice interface; Epilogue; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.2.2005
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	710 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-7546-4130-9 / 0754641309
ISBN-13	978-0-7546-4130-8 / 9780754641308
Zustand	Neuware