Beskrivelse
Financial and political changes globally and locally contribute to political interventions focusing on young people’s education (Woodman & Wyn 2015, Kelly & Kamp 2015). We are witnessing a massive discursive shift from ‘youth unemployment’ to young people’s ‘education’ and ‘employability’ and a tendency towards individualizing and making the young people’s social, emotional and academic competences the center of attention. The paper is based on examples from my doctoral thesis No Education, no jobs: Youth, becoming and complex transitions (Görlich 2016) about the growing number of young people under the age of 30 in Denmark, who have not completed upper secondary education and are unable to find stable, lasting jobs. The analyses build on empirical data from a research project with young people (18-30 years of age) on the margins of the educational system and are based on qualitative interviews and observations with 32 participants. The examples will explore ‘poetic inquiry’ as a methodological tool to analyze processes of becoming. The paper argues that poetic inquiry enables analyses in which new perspectives on young people on the margins of the educational system emerge. I argue that poetic inquiry makes it possible to construct analyses illustrating how young people are struggling to position themselves in systems that are highly individualized. Those struggles are characterized by movements in which the young people are trying to move forward while simultaneous ‘pulling the break’. Secondly, it is shown how the young people’s processes of becoming are formed by ‘logics of distance’. Experiences of distance are a recurring condition in the young people’s families, education, in the social welfare system and on the labour market. Simultaneously, the analyses show how the young people re-connect to society via relational support, collaborative practices and the building of network. I suggest that rather than understanding ‘what works’, we also need to understand the political, structural and institutional conditions with which the young people interact.| Periode | 2017 |
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| Begivenhedstitel | 1st European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry |
| Begivenhedstype | Konference |
| Placering | Leuven, BelgienVis på kort |