Rethinking the Education-to-Work Transition for Young People
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "Childhood and Youth Studies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 294
Special Issue Editors
Interests: education & educational research; social issues; social work
Interests: youth studies; social and educational youth issues; youth participation; educational innovations; learning communities; active learning; gender; diversity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will reflect on meaningful education and work trajectories for the youth. Most educational systems are built on the assumption that the trajectory from education to work is linear and straightforward. Moreover, research into educational careers has, for a long time, been guided by this assumption. More recently, empirical research in many countries has shown that practice is often not linear. On the contrary, for many young people, building an independent livelihood is a process in which they negotiate different educational trajectories and opportunities such as internships, temporary jobs, and entrepreneurial endeavors. As they develop themselves, they make sense of the experiences they go through. In this Special Issue, we would like to bring together articles displaying the features of these processes, the strategies used by young people to navigate them on one hand, and the role different forms of education and learning can play in supporting the youth on the other hand. Contributions from different contexts, groups with different backgrounds and preferences, and different practices and approaches are encouraged. They can entail conceptual essays, research results, good practices, policy discussions, and more, with the final goal being that the collected papers will provoke a debate on how to support meaningful education and work trajectories for youth in conducive learning environments not confined to the school walls.
Dr. Josje van der Linden
Prof. Dr. Greetje Timmerman
Dr. Cuthbert Tukundane
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- education–work transition
- education trajectories
- internships
- youth employment
- youth entrepreneurship
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