Full Description
This book explores student education transition and employability negotiation experiences in various contexts. It explores determinants of student transitions at three levels including macro, meso and micro but focuses on exploring affordances, constraints and strategies at the micro level. The framework underpinning the explorations at the micro level covers a range of different forms of capital including human, culture, social, identity, psychological and agentic.
The book is unique in three ways. First, it consists of chapters about critical discussion, empirical research and practical guidance about student transition experiences. The critical discussion and empirical research chapters explore and obtain insights about the complexity of student transitions and develop conceptual frameworks that guide the development of applicable practices. The book is, therefore, a useful resource for policy makers, institutions, academics, professionals and students. Second, it provides insights about how student transitions are determined by a range of factors at different levels. These insights extend discussions about student transitions in the current literature which have mainly explored impacts of policies, institutional programmes and human capital. Finally, it is international in focus because it draws on research with different cohorts of students and graduates in different contexts. Insights provided in the book are, therefore, rich, diverse and comparative.
Contents
1. An overview of student transition experiences and the significance of 'capitals' (Thanh Pham) PART I: SCHOOL TO TERTIARY EDUCATION TRANSITIONS 2. Student transition experiences: Key concepts and exemplar investigation models (Thanh Pham) 3. Navigating post-school trajectories: A conceptual framework of key determinants and essential resources (Thanh Pham) 4. International students' socialisation and transition experiences in high school: An empirical study (Behnam Soltani) PART II: EDUCATION TO WORK TRANSITIONS 5. Transitioning from education to the labour market: What matters and essential resources for positive employability outcomes (Thanh Pham) 6. Transitioning to vocational education: An investigation in experiences of international students (Behnam Soltani) 7. Transitioning to the home labour market: What counts, what matters and what are strategies? (Thanh Pham) 8. Transitioning from university to the teaching profession: Challenges of beginning teachers (Thanh Pham) 9. Reconceptualise graduate employability: The role of 'capitals' in navigating the teaching profession (Thanh Pham) 10. Strategies utilised by international graduates to overcome communication limitations and negotiate employability trajectories (Thanh Pham) PART III: RECOMMENDATIONS TO DEVELOP PRACTICAL RESOURCES FOR DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDERS 11. Enhancing student transition experiences: The role of students in proactively building essential resources (Thanh Pham and Behnam Soltani) 12. Enhancing student transition experiences: The role of institutions in creating opportunities for students to build essential resources (Thanh Pham and Behnam Soltani) 13. Enhancing student transition experiences: Initiatives guiding the development of essential resources (Thanh Pham and Behnam Soltani)
