From Policy to Grass Roots: Educational Interventions That Target Youth NEETs
A special issue of Societies (ISSN 2075-4698).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 5818
Special Issue Editors
Interests: rural NEETs; formal education; non-formal education; design research methods
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Young people aged between 15 and 34 who are not in education, employment of training (NEETs) often find themselves caught between the formal education system, which they often feel is not for them, and non-formal education supports, which are sometimes inaccessible to them for a variety of reasons. In terms of accessibility to formal education pathways, the financial burden is only one of the challenges that young people and their families need to consider. In relation to the provision of non-formal educational opportunities, it can be the case that they are simply not available where NEETs live. In the case of rural settings, youth NEETs are a particularly vulnerable group.
Educational interventions that target young people and those that are part of their educational ecosystem exist at multiple interconnected levels and should, in theory, inform each other as part of an iterative, reflexive process of regiment in response to the emergent needs of the labour market. At a macro level, policy interventions can spur on funding initiatives and reform. At the meso level, national responses can empower local actors to propose grassroots interventions that may be coordinated across regions or jurisdictions. At the micro level of intention, either in formal or non-formal contexts, practitioners work with those whom the macro- and meso-level actions intended to target. This multi-layered educational intervention ecosystem is complex and there is a limited amount of published work that showcases what these interventions sought to achieve and the impact of these actions. There is even less material that knits these multilayered actions together and presents a coherent insight in the ‘how’ of what such educational interventions achieved. Therefore, this Special Issue titled “From Policy to Grass Roots: Educational Interventions that Target Youth NEETs” invites scholars and educators to share their research works and experiences in this area so that others in cognate settings might adapt, adopt or innovate to make a difference with those who need help the most.
This Special Issue seeks to uncover these heretofore often unreported practices as exemplars of best practice educational interventions from both the formal and non-formal educational sectors in the form of a series of case studies. Submissions that critically reflect on the relationship between policy and practice, across the macro, meso and micro levels of intervention described here, are welcome. In addition, best practice interventions that seek to bring the formal and non-formal education sectors together are highly encouraged.
Dr. Paul Flynn
Dr. Kevin Davison
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rural NEETs
- formal education
- non-formal education
- educational interventions
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