Going places : Local settings and global horizons in young people’s education and work trajectories
The recent trend for mass higher education and a growing policy focus on a knowledge-driven economy has created the expectation that everyone can enter a fulfilling and rewarding career. However, young people often experience discrepancies between expectations of social mobility and local or nationa...
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ftuppsalauniv:oai:DiVA.org:uu-347063 2023-05-15T17:45:08+02:00 Going places : Local settings and global horizons in young people’s education and work trajectories Forsberg, Sara 2018 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-347063 eng eng Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen Uppsala : Department of Social and Economic Geography Geographica, 0431-2023 18 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-347063 urn:isbn:978-91-506-2689-6 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Social Sciences Samhällsvetenskap Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis text 2018 ftuppsalauniv 2023-02-23T21:47:27Z The recent trend for mass higher education and a growing policy focus on a knowledge-driven economy has created the expectation that everyone can enter a fulfilling and rewarding career. However, young people often experience discrepancies between expectations of social mobility and local or national labour market opportunities. This thesis draws on Bourdieu’s family of concepts of field, capital and habitus to analyse how young people’s different education and work trajectories are conceived, validated and realised across different socio-spatial contexts. An interview-based study of how supranational organisations for education mediate and shape normative values of education revealed that a global agenda of education is embedded in a complex geography ranging from the individual to the global level. Within this, orders of dominance between nation-states are reinforced in the formulation and allocation of problems and solutions. In a field study in Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital in Kerala, India, young people’s dispositions towards mobility in the transition from education to work were analysed. The results revealed that young people’s future aspirations are shaped in a profound way by Kerala’s history of in- and out-migration. The study also identified differences within the middle class, where transnational capital distinguishes rather than unifies ‘Indian youth’. A similar study on how young people in a sparsely populated area in northern Sweden negotiate their future education and work alternatives showed that the geographical marginality of the region influences perceptions of the future in divergent and sometimes contradictory ways. In a follow-up study of the wider region, individual-level registry data were used to explore post-graduation mobility in the five northern counties in Sweden. The results showed that grades, levels of education and choice of occupation or education type all impact the mobility of young adults within the highly-educated segment of the population, and in particular the ... Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Northern Sweden Uppsala University: Publications (DiVA) Indian |
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The recent trend for mass higher education and a growing policy focus on a knowledge-driven economy has created the expectation that everyone can enter a fulfilling and rewarding career. However, young people often experience discrepancies between expectations of social mobility and local or national labour market opportunities. This thesis draws on Bourdieu’s family of concepts of field, capital and habitus to analyse how young people’s different education and work trajectories are conceived, validated and realised across different socio-spatial contexts. An interview-based study of how supranational organisations for education mediate and shape normative values of education revealed that a global agenda of education is embedded in a complex geography ranging from the individual to the global level. Within this, orders of dominance between nation-states are reinforced in the formulation and allocation of problems and solutions. In a field study in Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital in Kerala, India, young people’s dispositions towards mobility in the transition from education to work were analysed. The results revealed that young people’s future aspirations are shaped in a profound way by Kerala’s history of in- and out-migration. The study also identified differences within the middle class, where transnational capital distinguishes rather than unifies ‘Indian youth’. A similar study on how young people in a sparsely populated area in northern Sweden negotiate their future education and work alternatives showed that the geographical marginality of the region influences perceptions of the future in divergent and sometimes contradictory ways. In a follow-up study of the wider region, individual-level registry data were used to explore post-graduation mobility in the five northern counties in Sweden. The results showed that grades, levels of education and choice of occupation or education type all impact the mobility of young adults within the highly-educated segment of the population, and in particular the ... |
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Going places : Local settings and global horizons in young people’s education and work trajectories |
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