Session Information
23 SES 01 A, Collective Actions, Alliances and Resistance of Children, Young People and Teachers (Part 1)
Symposium to be continued in 23 SES 02 A
Time:
2009-09-28
09:15-10:45
Room:
HG, HS 28
Chair:
Gaby Weiner
Discussant:
Julie Allan
Contribution
The transition from secondary to upper secondary school often means a higher level of responsibility for the student. Moreover the concept of desirable citizenship in the era of educational restructuring and neo-liberal governance emphasizes individualized responsibility. In this paper we explore how young people deal with the new expectations they meet on their route to adulthood and labour market citizenship. The presentation is based on ethnographic projects in the context of vocational education, two in Sweden and one in Finland. The structure of upper secondary education differs in the two countries. In Finland it is strictly divided into general and vocational upper secondary institutions, and in Sweden it is organizationally united and all programmes have the same core subjects that give merits for higher education. We focus on cultural processes in these different contexts. In that sense our perspective is cross-cultural. The Swedish data are generated in Vehicle and Child and recreation programmes, the Finnish in a sector of social and health care. We analyse how and if young people at those programmes make collective actions, alliances and resistance negotiating their space in school.
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