The last two decades have seen a significant growth of research studies concerned with young people living in rural places with a strong focus on social and economic inequalities. In these studies, ...equality has become a key organising principle in understanding young people's lives in settings that offer continuous social, economic, and cultural disadvantages. Drawing on a qualitative research study in a rural school in Victoria, Australia, this paper seeks to examine the ways in which young people make sense of and negotiate the challenges they encounter in their communities and in their post-secondary school transitions through two dominant discourses of equality: liberal egalitarianism and neoliberalism. These competing discourses conceptualise equality and approaches to addressing disadvantage differently. The former places the emphasis on a social approach underpinned by the idea of equality of opportunity, while the latter focuses on an individualised approach based on the notion of merit. I draw on a radical egalitarian critique by Iris Marion Young to reveal limitations from both positions and to show that adopting an individualised approach rather than a social one has significant implications for the way youth and institutions frame not only post-secondary school transitions and rural disadvantage but inequality as a whole.
A fundamental component of the medical home model is care coordination. In Minnesota, this model informed design and implementation of the state’s health care home (HCH) model, a key element of ...statewide healthcare reform legislation. Children with medical complexity (CMC) often require care from multiple specialists and community resources. Coordinating this multi-faceted care within the HCH is challenging. This article describes the need for specialized models of care coordination for CMC. Two models of care coordination for CMC were developed to address this challenge. The TeleFamilies Model of Pediatric Care Coordination uses an advanced practice registered nurse care (APRN) coordinator embedded within an established HCH. The PRoSPer Model of Pediatric Care Coordination uses a registered nurse/social worker care coordinator team embedded within a specialty care system. We describe key findings from implementation of these models, and conclude with lessons learned. Replication of the models is encouraged to increase the evidence base for care coordination for the growing population of children with medical complexities.
This article compares two groups of foster care alumni residing in transitional living programs in San Francisco, California. One group of youth was served in programs geared specifically towards ...youth aging out of foster care who were referred through a transition planning process. A second group of youth was served in similar transitional housing programs that were not exclusively for foster care alumni but instead served homeless youth in general. Comparisons between these two groups reveal that youth in the population-specific programs have less acute initial presentations than foster care alumni in homelessness intervention programs, who had faced more unemployment, school attrition, substance use, and mental health concerns prior to program admission than their peers in the programs specifically for foster care alumni. The research also shows that youth in the homelessness intervention programs had faced more instability during their years in foster care when compared to youth in the population-specific programs for foster care alumni. The research highlights the need for better understanding of the referral process for youth aging out of foster care so that transitional housing programs for young adult foster care alumni can better serve a diversity of youth with different service needs.
This paper examines the current youth transition system in Poland focusing on the role of industry partnerships with vocational upper secondary schools. On the example of the aviation cluster in the ...south-eastern Poland, this paper assesses the strong industry-led partnership established in 2007 with local schools and authorities in delivery of aviation-specific programmes, and its impact of local youth transitions to labour market. In contrast to Poland's national trend towards weak cooperation between industry and the vocational education sector, three major dynamics regarding the aviation cluster's influence on vocational education are observable. The region benefits from: strong leadership from local industry in influencing the supply of particular skills by local vocational education and training (VET) schools and universities; a high level of willingness of local government authorities at the mayor's and municipality's offices to support the aviation cluster's influence on VET; and a free-market model of student choice influencing the practice of local VET schools and training centres. Such cooperation is valuable for businesses and local institutes of education. However, these processes affect the equal chances of successful school-to-work transitions for graduates stratified in different educational pathways, and successful transitions are still constrained by the structure of Poland's system, which is increasingly assuming 'education logic'.
This paper reports on the findings of a PhD research project that set out to explore how young people leaving out of home care experienced and made sense of their transition to adulthood. Using the ...Biographical Narrative Interpretative Method, in-depth accounts were collected and analysed for eight care leavers. The data suggest that in addition to care leavers living their lives as a series of biographical events, their ‘care career’, they also experience changes in the way they make sense of their lives which form a ‘subjective pathway’. Influenced by the literature on resilience, the research had anticipated that ‘turning point’ events would play a significant role in the young people’s subjective pathways. But the findings show a more gradual, phased shifting of subjectivity. It is suggested that legislation, policy, services and care practices need to facilitate this more drawn out ‘subjective pathway’. Attachment, resilience and humanistic social psychology are proposed as useful theoretical underpinnings for that work.
This paper provides a reflective overview of studies of Indonesian youth. The main part is organised around a number of key ideas about youth, in three main sections, on 'youth as generation', 'youth ...as transition', and 'youth as makers and consumers of culture'.
Como resultado de orientações políticas propaladas pela União Europeia (UE), desde o início deste século, o ensino superior europeu, tem abarcado um novo desafio: potencializar o designado “espírito ...empreendedor”. Os apelos ao empreendedorismo juvenil qualificado se estendem por todo o continente, adquirindo particular relevo nos países do sul, onde a crise europeia ecoa de forma mais aguda. A tendência das mais diversas instituições de ensino para adaptar seus procedimentos às diretrizes da UE consubstanciou-se na inclusão de novas disciplinas nos currículos, na criação de associações de estudantes ligadas ao empreendedorismo e no estabelecimento de estruturas administrativas e acadêmicas que fomentam a concepção de spin-off e a transferência de conhecimento. A despeito desses esforços disseminados, ainda não há uma tradição de avaliar e monitorar os resultados dessas iniciativas, não sendo assim possível conhecer e antecipar devidamente os seus resultados e impactos econômicos, nomeadamente no nível do emprego. Este artigo aponta três eixos analíticos centrais na observação desse novo vetor de transformação do ensino superior. Pretendemos desnaturalizar o conceito de empreendedorismo, evitando a armadilha da sua reificação; em seguida, realizaremos uma breve resenha acerca do desenvolvimento da noção de empreendedorismo no campo acadêmico; por fim, tencionamos documentar a relevância que as orientações empreendedoras têm assumido no desenho das políticas da UE, destacando a expressão que alcançaram no sistema educativo, com especial relevo para os seus patamares formativos mais elevados.
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