Transitions from Education to Work: New Perspectives from Europe and Beyond

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Transitions from Education to Work: An Introduction....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
School-to-Work in the 1990s: Modelling Transitions with Large-Scale Datasets....Pages 17-41
Interrogating the Notion of Transition: Learner Experiences of Multiple Transitions Between the Vocational- and Higher-Education Sectors....Pages 42-60
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Social Capital Key for Successful School-to-Work Transitions? Analyzing Migrant Youths’ Trajectories and Social Networks....Pages 63-77
Living with Poor Basic Skills? The Role of ‘Skills for Life’ in Education-to-Work Transitions....Pages 78-93
Stories of Survival: The Struggle for Resiliency in the Post-Institutional Life Course of Former Residential-Education Students....Pages 94-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
The Relevance of University Education and Fears of Unemployment: Perceptions of University Students Making Transitions to the World of Work in Ghana....Pages 113-135
Gap Year Travel: Youth Transition or Youth Transformation?....Pages 136-149
The Role of Volunteering in Transitions from Higher Education to Work....Pages 150-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Education, Transition and e-Portfolios: Smoothing out the Bumps....Pages 169-184
Governing School-to-Work Transitions: Shaping the Future Worker....Pages 185-200
‘Mind the Gap’: Reassessing Transitions to Adulthood Using Young People’s Accounts of Undertaking Short-Term Employment....Pages 201-216
Conclusion....Pages 217-224
Back Matter....Pages 225-259