The making of young lives with/against the school credential

Title: The making of young lives with/against the school credential
Creator: Smyth, John
Date: 2003
Type: Text; Journal article
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/64745
Identifier: vital:5925
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1080/1363908032000070657
Identifier: ISSN:1363-9080
Abstract: This article provides argument and 'voiced' evidence from an Australian study (Smyth et al., 2000) of 209 young people who had chosen not to complete their secondary schooling. It reports on how they made these complex decisions, particularly around the credentialling process. There is support here for Wyn and Dwyer's (2000) thesis that some young people are not propelled through schooling by the lure of a credential, and quite to the contrary, they have a high level of agency in constructing alternative biographies for themselves that undermine the policy trajectory. Far from being victims who 'drop out', these young people presented in individualistic ways that amounted to accommodation and resistance to the impediments of a policy credential for university entrance which they labelled as irrelevant, despite its declared intention to be inclusive of all.
Relation: Journal of Education and Work Vol. 16, no. 2 (2003), p. 127-146
Rights: This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Subject: 1303 Specialist Studies In Education; 1607 Social Work
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