- Title
- 'Broadening horizons' : raising youth aspirations through a Gippsland school/industry/university partnership
- Creator
- Plunkett, Margaret; Dyson, Michael
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/171536
- Identifier
- vital:14356
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6378-8_6
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789811363788; 9789811363771
- Abstract
- The International Labour Organization characterises being young in today's labour market as 'not easy'. In parts of Gippsland, a regional area of Victoria Australia, it is certainly not easy because youth unemployment reached 21.7% in 2016, the second highest in the state. Within this regional-global context, research into youth aspirations is often bounded by a deficit-focused framework with little emphasis on contextual positives. This chapter, however, reports on a 5-year project of an innovative regional school-industry partnership. 'Broadening Horizons' provides project-based workplace learning units where partners immerse students in 'realworld problems' such as road safety and public transport. The Gippsland regional office of the Department of Education sought a formal evaluation of the project from the local university, at the time Monash Gippsland, but in 2014, we became part of FederationUniversity Australia. This chapter outlines findings from a mixedmethodology evaluation of the project's pilot stage and points out a number of important factors. These include a broader understanding of youth career support, youth aspirations and education/industry partnerships in a regional context, and the importance of involving parents. One school, in particular, achieved very successful parental involvement, which had a major impact on the learning and engagement of the students involved.We conclude that projects like this help to illustrate the complexities associated with youth aspirations in a regional context and may help to challenge associated, unsubstantiated stereotypes. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019. All rights are reserved.
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore
- Relation
- Educational researchers and the regional university : agents of regional-global transformations 6 p. 93-114
- Rights
- Copyright Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Mixed methodology; School-industry partnerships; Youth aspirations; Youth career support
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