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Regulating Transitions from School to Work: An Institutional Ethnography of Activation Work in Action
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Abstract How are activation programs for the young unemployed implemented? How do street-level bureaucrats deal with competing rationalities and demands for action? Transition policies increasingly aim at promoting self-regulation and constructing employable subjects. The author explores the practical regula... view more
How are activation programs for the young unemployed implemented? How do street-level bureaucrats deal with competing rationalities and demands for action? Transition policies increasingly aim at promoting self-regulation and constructing employable subjects. The author explores the practical regulation of biographical transitions in activation programs for the young unemployed by focusing on the interactive accomplishment of activation work. The study reveals how the critical tensions of activation policies are continually re-interpreted and adapted to local contingencies and describes the various organisational technologies used for creating employable subjects.... view less
Keywords
unemployment; adolescent; activation; employment promotion; social policy; social welfare state; government promotion of vocational training; vocational education; vocational education policy; life career
Classification
Social Policy
Macroanalysis of the Education System, Economics of Education, Educational Policy
Free Keywords
Transitions; Human Service Organizations; Institutional Ethnography; Sociology of Conventions; Work; Education; Educational Research; Sociology of Education; Social Pedagogy; History of Education
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Publisher
Bielefeld University Press
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
312 p.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839457061
ISBN
978-3-8394-5706-1
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed