Working Pupils: Challenges and Potential

Autor/inn/en	Howieson, C.; McKechnie, J.; Semple, S.
Titel	Working Pupils: Challenges and Potential
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Work, 25 (2012) 4, S.423-442 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-9080
DOI	10.1080/13639080.2012.708723
Schlagwörter	Employment Potential; Student Employment; Part Time Employment; Work Experience; Skill Development; Vocational Education; Employers; Participation; Job Training; Educational Opportunities; Surveys; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Studentenarbeit; Part-time employment; Teilzeitbeschäftigung; Employment experience; Job experience; Occupational experience; Berufserfahrung; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Teilnahme; Berufsqualifizierender Bildungsgang; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	Successive governments, agencies and employer organisations have stressed the need for school leavers to be better prepared for working life, in particular, to achieve what are frequently termed employability skills; schools are expected to contribute to this policy agenda. Some academic commentators, however, criticise the concept of employability and schools' role in it although others argue that the concept does have value and utility. While there are strongly held opposing stances on employability and employability skills, an aspect that has been largely ignored is the experience of the workplace that many pupils already have through their part-time employment while at school. This paper addresses this gap, drawing on a national study of pupils' part-time employment to consider the place of part-time work in the employability skills policy agenda. It asks if schools should utilise the opportunities for skill development that much part-time work offers and whether employers should take more responsibility for the development of their "pupil workers". It suggests that pupils' part-time work may represent an opportunity for greater employer involvement in initial vocational education and training, constituting a small step in re-dressing the uneven balance of responsibility between education and employers that has developed in recent decades. (Contains 2 figures, 3 tables, and 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10