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Girls' School-to-Work Transitions into Male Dominated Workplaces
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Maria Rönnlund; Aina Tollefsen – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2025
The article addresses school-to-work transitions among young women in a strongly male dominated professional sphere -- the transport industry. Drawing on interviews with two girls over the time span 2015-2022 and visits to their upper secondary school 2016-2019, the study focuses on how power structures related to gender play out in the…
Descriptors: Females, Disproportionate Representation, Work Environment, Power Structure
Globalisation in Swedish Rural Areas: Organisation of Adult Education and Transitions to Work for Immigrants in Times of Depopulation
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Rosvall, Per-Åke; Carlbaum, Sara; Benerdal, Malin – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2022
This article focuses on how local institutions in three rural areas in Sweden organised education and work to assist adult immigrants' integration. We particularly analyse how local officials in educational institutions, employment offices and local governments attempted to support adult immigrants' education-to-work transitions, using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Rural Areas, Adult Education
Transition from School to Work for Handicapped Adolescents: Swedish Position Report to the OECD/CERI Project concerning the Education of Handicapped Adolescents--Innovative Approaches in the Transition to Adult and Working Life.
Soder, Marten – 1984
The report describes the Swedish educational and employment system and efforts underway to facilitate the transition from school to work for handicapped adolescents. A review of the general education system touches upon administrative structure, finance, and trends in compulsory comprehensive school and in upper secondary schools. The next section…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Employment
Disabled Youth: From School to Work.
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. – 1991
This monograph offers an international perspective on the period of transition from school to adult and working life for young people who are disabled. It examines practices which appear to be effective in facilitating a successful transition and looks at ways in which important features of those practices might be incorporated into professional…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Educational Practices
Training Strategies. Preparing Noncollege Youth for Employment in the U.S. and Foreign Countries. Report to Congressional Requesters.
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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1990
A study was conducted by the General Accounting Office (GAO) to review U.S. education and training strategies; identify likely weaknesses; and examine the strategies of England, the Federal Republic of Germany, Japan, and Sweden for preparing noncollege youth for employment. GAO reviewed the literature, consulted with experts, and visited the…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Dropout Characteristics, Dropouts, Education Work Relationship
A Comparative Analysis of Transitions from Education to Work in Europe (CATEWE). Final Report [and] Annex to the Final Report.
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Smyth, Emer; Gangl, Markus; Raffe, David; Hannan, Damian F.; McCoy, Selina – 2001
This project aimed to develop a more comprehensive conceptual framework of school-to-work transitions in different national contexts and apply this framework to the empirical analysis of transition processes across European countries. It drew on these two data sources: European Community Labor Force Survey and integrated databases on national…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Demography