This collection focuses on employer engagement in education, how it is delivered and the differentiated impact it has on young people in their progression through schooling and higher education into the labour market. The focus is not narrowly on vocational or technical education or work-related learning, but on how employer engagement (e.g. work experience, internships, careers education, workplace visits, mentoring, enterprise education, etc.) influences the experiences and outcomes of the broad range of young people across mainstream academic learning programmes. The essays explore... [+] Show more
This collection focuses on employer engagement in education, how it is delivered and the differentiated impact it has on young people in their progression through schooling and higher education into the labour market. The focus is not narrowly on vocational or technical education or work-related learning, but on how employer engagement (e.g. work experience, internships, careers education, workplace visits, mentoring, enterprise education, etc.) influences the experiences and outcomes of the broad range of young people across mainstream academic learning programmes. The essays explore the different ways in which education can support or constrain social mobility and, in particular, how employer engagement in education can have significant impact upon social mobility – both positive and negative.
Summary from publisher’s website.
The contents are: Introduction / Julian Stanley, Anthony Mann and Louise Archer; Part one, ‘Conceptualising employer engagement in education’, contains: Conceptualising aspiration / Louise Archer; A theoretical framework for employer engagement / Julian Stanley and Anthony Mann; A conceptual framework for the American labour market: engagement, achievement and transition / James R. Stone; Youth employment in the 21st century / Kathrin Hoeckel; Part two, ‘Social and economic contexts’, contains: Social mobility in Britain 1991-2005 / Yaojun Li and Fiona Devine; The winners and losers in the ‘hourglass’ labour market / Craig Holmes and Ken Mayhew; Local labour markets: what effects do they have on the aspirations of young people? / Ralf St Clair, Keith Kintrea and Muir Houston; The impact of financial and cultural capital on FE students’ education and employment progression / Emma Norris and Becky Francis; Part three: ‘Equity and access in the experience of employer engagement’, contains: The views of young Britons (aged 19-24) on their teenage experiences of school-mediated employer engagement / Anthony Mann and Elnaz T. Kashefpakdel; ‘That aroma of where they are likely to go’: employer engagement in high-performing English independent schools / Prue Huddleston, Anthony Mann and James Dawkins; The role of work experience in the UK higher education admissions process / Steven Jones; How school work experience policies can widen student horizons or reproduce social inequality / Tricia le Gallais and Richard Hatcher; Part four, ‘Economic impact and employment outcomes’, contains: School-mediated employer engagement and labour market outcomes for young adults: wage premia, NEET outcomes and career confidence / Christian Percy and Anthony Mann; Exploring outcomes of youth apprenticeship in Canada / Alison Taylor, Milosh Raykov and Zane Hamm; Work experience: the economic case for employers / David Massey; Conclusion / Julian Stanley, Anthony Mann and Louise Archer.
The companion volume, 'Essays on employer engagement in education', is available in VOCEDplus at TD/TNC 133.717.
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