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Simmons, Robin – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2017
This paper draws on research into the experiences of young people classified as NEET (not in education, employment or training) on an employability programme in the north of England, and uses Basil Bernstein's work on pedagogic discourses to explore how the creative arts can be used to re-engage them in work-related learning. Whilst creating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Out of School Youth, Ethnography
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Russell, Lisa; Simmons, Robin; Thompson, Ron – Journal of Education and Work, 2011
This paper discusses the findings from a one-year ethnographic study of young people attending Entry to Employment (E2E) programmes in two local authorities in the north of England. The paper locates E2E within the broader context of provision for low-achieving young people and of UK government policy on reducing the proportion of young people who…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Public Policy
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Behrens, Martina; Evans, Karen – Comparative Education, 2002
A survey and group interviews with unemployed young people aged 18-25 in Derby (England), Hannover (western Germany), and Leipzig (eastern Germany) examined the relative importance to their life and work transitions of individual agency and structural factors. Two national job training "schemes" for unemployed youth are compared: the…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential, Employment Programs, Family Influence