New patterns of youth transition in education

Authors
Citation
J. Wyn et P. Dwyer, New patterns of youth transition in education, INT SOC SCI, 52(2), 2000, pp. 147
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Sociology & Antropology
Journal title
INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL
ISSN journal
00208701 → ACNP
Volume
52
Issue
2
Year of publication
2000
Database
ISI
SICI code
0020-8701(200006)52:2<147:NPOYTI>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
Current research provides evidence that new relationships are being forged between youth and education. Increased participation in post-compulsory edu cation, combinations of work and study and uncertain career outcomes have b ecome common experiences. There is an emerging disparity between the stated goals of education and the changing priorities and choices of young people . In particular, the linear notion of transitions, expressed in the metapho rs of pathways used in policy documents, is increasingly at odds with the p atterns of life experienced by young people in many nations. Three themes s tand out in the research on young people in the 1990s. First, an awareness of foreclosed options in educational outcomes is a consistent thread across a range of studies. Secondly, there is a discernible shift by the end of t he 1990s toward more complex life-patterns and a blending or balancing of a range of personal priorities and interests. Thirdly, the need to give 'act ive voice' to young people about the dramatic social and economic changes t hey have been subjected to, is unmistakable in the light of the increasing disparity between the rhetoric of youth and education policy and their own experience of its outcomes.