Full Description
Further education (FE) is no longer a peripheral part of the education system in Britain. The dramatic changes in the labour market and the resulting patterns of youth unemployment in the 1980s radically altered conceptions of FE and training. An increasing number of young people aged sixteen to nineteen were spending significant amounts of time in FE programs, work experience, and vocational preparation courses.
First published in 1983, Youth Training and the Search for Work explains how FE had come to occupy a central role in regulating youth labour markets, examines the extent to which FE had become a substitute for employment, and explores the consequences of FE practices on the lives and future employment prospects of young people, particularly in relation to class, race, and gender. The first section of the book examines the relationship between FE and the labour market from a variety of analytical perspectives. The second section explores these issues in greater depth through case studies, while the third section discusses the implications of unemployment and evaluates contemporary youth training initiatives and proposals.
The chapters in this volume offer both topical insights and theoretical analysis concerning the relationship between FE, training, and work. Their discussion of key issues surrounding youth, training, and employment will be of particular value to teachers and students of youth culture, sociology, economics, and education.
Contents
Preface Part 1: Further education and the labour market Introduction 1. Further education, pedagogy and production 2. Further education, tripartism and the labour market 3. The quality of training and the design of work 4. Further education for corporatism: the significance of the Business Education Council 5. The 'technicisation' of morality and culture: a consideration of the work of Claude Grignon and its relevance to further education in Britain Part 2: Patterns of participation in further education and training Introduction 6. Patterns of participation in vocational further education: a study of school leavers in inner London 7. The end of the 'alternative route'? The changing relation of part-time education to work-life mobility among young male workers 8. Second chances? Further education, ethnic minorities and labour markets 9. The recreation and perpetuation of the secretarial myth 10. Selection and differentiation in further education: The Certificate of Further Education as a case in point 11. Typing in the tech: domesticity, ideology and women's place in further education Part 3: Further education and unemployment Introduction 12. Social policy and institutional autonomy in further education 13. The training myth: a critique of the government's response to youth unemployment and its impact on further education 14. Industrial training for the disadvantaged 15. Education and unemployment: does YOP make a difference (and will the Youth Training Scheme)? 16. Youth unemployment programmes: a historical account of the development of 'dole colleges'
