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Unemployed Youth and Social Exclusion in Europe : Learning for Inclusion?.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Florence :
Taylor and Francis,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- PART I: ENCOUNTERS
- 1 Orientations
- Increasing Employabihty and Decreasing Social Exclusion: The Defining Tension
- Young People Surviving and Thriving in Europe: Opening up a Conversation
- This 'Activation' Trend: What's it all About?
- 2 The Research Wellsprmg for this Book
- An Innovative Research Approach
- Co-generating Socially Robust Knowledge
- Involving Young Adults in Research
- National Contexts and Regional Choices for this Research
- Perspectives across the Countries and Regions
- Initial Research Preoccupations and Concerns
- No Easy Answers
- 3 Three Starting Stories' Young Europeans being 'Activated' for Employment
- Encounter in Denmark
- Encounter in Belgium
- Encounter in Portugal
- 4 Youth Transition Research: Changing Metaphors and Languages in a Globalizing World
- Beyond Agency-structure Dualisms
- Balancing Competencies: A Socially Robust Line of Inquiry?
- The Discourse of Activation: Further Questions
- PART II: LENSES ON THE SHIFTING LANDSCAPE OF 'ACTIVATION'
- 5 Activation Practices: An Emerging Topography
- Discernible Trends: Four Cultures of Learning
- Emerging Issues: Standardized and Non-standardized Approaches to Activation
- Anticipating what Follows: Different Lenses on the Same Landscape
- Promising Cusps?
- 6 Working-identities in (Com)motion
- Socially Excluded Young People m Relation to the Labor Market
- From 'Career-identity' to 'Working-identity'
- Four Working-identities
- Juggling while Navigating Shaky Ground
- Emerging Paradoxes, Pitfalls and Possibilities
- Working-identities across Countries and Cultures: Paradoxes of 'Progress'
- Conclusion. Motion and Commotion
- 7 Agency, Empowerment, and Activation: Balancing Contradictions.
- Empowerment: For Whom and on Whose Terms?
- Activation Projects as Communities of Practice?
- Balancing Competences9
- Practicing Imagination and Re-vis(ion)mg Biographies: The Bridging the Gap Project
- Missed Possibilities: The Female Electricians Project
- Situated Learning for Social and Economic Inclusion: The Cultural Mediators Project
- Conclusion
- 8 Re-vis(ion)ing Professional Practice with Young Unemployed Adults
- 'Getting Inside' Lifeworlds
- The Unsettled Professional
- Opening up 'Action Space'
- The Interpretive Professional
- Empowering Professionals
- Conclusion
- PART III: PARADOXES AND POSSIBILITIES: POLICY, PRACTICE AND RESEARCH
- 9 Making the Bridge: Introduction to Part III
- 10 Ideologies and Policy Discourses: Impacts from 'On High' and 'Afar'
- The EU as a Key Actor
- Tensions between Economic and Social Objectives
- Envisaging New Balances between the Economic and the Social
- Policy Frameworks to Combat Youth Unemployment
- 11 Restrictive and Reflexive Activation Discourses Explored
- 'Activation' Re-visited
- Restrictive Activation
- Reflexive Activation
- Contextualized Activation Practices and Multiple Intervention Strategies
- Conclusion
- 12 Learning and Improvisation at the Policy-practice Interface
- Review
- Policy Learning: A Contradiction in Terms?
- Limitations to Policy Learning in Europe
- Learning for Inclusion across the EU?
- Involving Young People in Policy-practice Learning
- Final Reflections
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Case Study Projects from the Six European Countries: 'Pen Portraits'
- Bibliography
- Index.