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1 online resource (290 pages) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: ENCOUNTERS -- 1 Orientations -- Increasing Employabihty and Decreasing Social Exclusion: The Defining Tension -- Young People Surviving and Thriving in Europe: Opening up a Conversation -- This 'Activation' Trend: What's it all About? -- 2 The Research Wellsprmg for this Book -- An Innovative Research Approach -- Co-generating Socially Robust Knowledge -- Involving Young Adults in Research -- National Contexts and Regional Choices for this Research -- Perspectives across the Countries and Regions -- Initial Research Preoccupations and Concerns -- No Easy Answers -- 3 Three Starting Stories' Young Europeans being 'Activated' for Employment -- Encounter in Denmark -- Encounter in Belgium -- Encounter in Portugal -- 4 Youth Transition Research: Changing Metaphors and Languages in a Globalizing World -- Beyond Agency-structure Dualisms -- Balancing Competencies: A Socially Robust Line of Inquiry? -- The Discourse of Activation: Further Questions -- PART II: LENSES ON THE SHIFTING LANDSCAPE OF 'ACTIVATION' -- 5 Activation Practices: An Emerging Topography -- Discernible Trends: Four Cultures of Learning -- Emerging Issues: Standardized and Non-standardized Approaches to Activation -- Anticipating what Follows: Different Lenses on the Same Landscape -- Promising Cusps? -- 6 Working-identities in (Com)motion -- Socially Excluded Young People m Relation to the Labor Market -- From 'Career-identity' to 'Working-identity' -- Four Working-identities -- Juggling while Navigating Shaky Ground -- Emerging Paradoxes, Pitfalls and Possibilities -- Working-identities across Countries and Cultures: Paradoxes of 'Progress' -- Conclusion. Motion and Commotion -- 7 Agency, Empowerment, and Activation: Balancing Contradictions |
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Empowerment: For Whom and on Whose Terms? -- Activation Projects as Communities of Practice? -- Balancing Competences9 -- Practicing Imagination and Re-vis(ion)mg Biographies: The Bridging the Gap Project -- Missed Possibilities: The Female Electricians Project -- Situated Learning for Social and Economic Inclusion: The Cultural Mediators Project -- Conclusion -- 8 Re-vis(ion)ing Professional Practice with Young Unemployed Adults -- 'Getting Inside' Lifeworlds -- The Unsettled Professional -- Opening up 'Action Space' -- The Interpretive Professional -- Empowering Professionals -- Conclusion -- PART III: PARADOXES AND POSSIBILITIES: POLICY, PRACTICE AND RESEARCH -- 9 Making the Bridge: Introduction to Part III -- 10 Ideologies and Policy Discourses: Impacts from 'On High' and 'Afar' -- The EU as a Key Actor -- Tensions between Economic and Social Objectives -- Envisaging New Balances between the Economic and the Social -- Policy Frameworks to Combat Youth Unemployment -- 11 Restrictive and Reflexive Activation Discourses Explored -- 'Activation' Re-visited -- Restrictive Activation -- Reflexive Activation -- Contextualized Activation Practices and Multiple Intervention Strategies -- Conclusion -- 12 Learning and Improvisation at the Policy-practice Interface -- Review -- Policy Learning: A Contradiction in Terms? -- Limitations to Policy Learning in Europe -- Learning for Inclusion across the EU? -- Involving Young People in Policy-practice Learning -- Final Reflections -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Case Study Projects from the Six European Countries: 'Pen Portraits' -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Print version record |
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Unemployed youth -- Europe -- Social conditions
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Unemployed youth -- Services for -- Europe
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Unemployed youth -- Services for -- Research
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Youth with social disabilities -- Europe
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Marginality, Social -- Europe
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Marginality, Social
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Youth with social disabilities
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Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wildemeersch, Danny
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Percy-Smith, Barry
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Jansen, Theo
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| ISBN |
9781351876797 |
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1351876791 |
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