Time, Space and Young People's Agency in Vocational Upper Secondary Education: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Autor/inn/en	Hjelmer, Carina; Lappalainen, Sirpa; Rosvall, Per-Ake
Titel	Time, Space and Young People's Agency in Vocational Upper Secondary Education: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Quelle	In: European Educational Research Journal, 9 (2010) 2, S.245-256 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-9041
DOI	10.2304/eerj.2010.9.2.245
Schlagwörter	Cross Cultural Studies; Secondary Education; Ethnography; Young Adults; Foreign Countries; Vocational Education; Spatial Ability; Responsibility; Citizenship; Compulsory Education; Children; Recreational Activities; Finland; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Sekundarbereich; Ethnografie; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Ausland; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Verantwortungsübernahme; Zuständigkeit; Staatsbürgerschaft; Schulpflicht; Child; Kind; Kinder; Freizeitgestaltung; Finnland; Schweden
Abstract	This article is based on ethnographic studies in the context of vocational education: two in Sweden and one in Finland. The Swedish data originate from the Vehicle programme and the Child and Recreation programme; the Finnish data originate from the social and health-care sector. In this sense, the authors' perspective is cross-cultural. The article focuses on temporal and spatial dimensions of these three educational contexts and analyzes how young people exhibit their agency when negotiating their time and constructing their own space. The authors' analysis elucidates how time-space paths in the context of vocational education are classed and gendered. In the female-dominated fields of vocational upper secondary education, disciplinary practices related to time and space are more visible than in the male-dominated fields. Moreover, it is argued that the political atmosphere in Sweden has been more favourable for promoting equality than that in Finland. Despite this, divisions between students and pigeonholing exist in everyday school life. (Contains 7 notes.) (As Provided).
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