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Youth Transitions, VET and the "Making" of Class: Changing Theorisations for Changing Times?
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Avis, James; Atkins, Liz – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2017
The paper places youth transitions and vocational education and training (VET) within the global policy context in which economic competiveness is hegemonic. It compares research from the 1970s/80s, which explored young peoples' lived experiences of VET and youth training schemes with contemporary work on similar themes. It argues that there are…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, Working Class
HE in FE: Vocationalism, Class and Social Justice
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Avis, James; Orr, Kevin – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2016
The paper draws on the Wolf (2015) report ("Heading for the Precipice: Can Further and Higher Education Funding Policies Be Sustained?") and other quantitative data, specifically that derived from HEFCE's Participation of Local Area (POLAR) classifications. In addition it explores key literature and debates that associate higher…
Descriptors: Social Class, Social Justice, Higher Education, Continuing Education
Class, Economism, Individualisation and Post Compulsory Education and Training
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Avis, James – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2008
The paper considers the broader policy context in which English Post Compulsory Education and Training (PCET) is placed, examining the model of class implicit within policy documents and particular currents within new Labour thinking. It notes that class relations and patterns of inequality have deepened. Class as a structural feature of the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Social Problems, Postsecondary Education, Social Class