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7 - From Paradigm to Paradox: Parental Support and Transitions to Independence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2009

By
Gill Jones
Edited by
Ingrid Schoon  and
Rainer K. Silbereisen
Ingrid Schoon
Affiliation:
Institute of Education, University of London
Rainer K. Silbereisen
Affiliation:
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany
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Summary

Introduction

In the late modern age, there is an increasing tension between the global and the local, as commentators such as Bauman (1998) and Giddens (1990) suggest. This tension is apparent in the field of youth policy. Because national economies must compete on a world stage, they have to produce workforces suited to this global purpose. Because of global demographic changes in the age composition of societies, with a resulting imbalance to the ‘dependency ratio’, there is increased pressure on welfare states to reduce dependence on the state. The effect on young people is that they are expected to gain the qualifications needed nationally in terms of global competition and are seen as the main means of reducing the dependence which is associated with poverty and social exclusion, whether or not they share these objectives. The question, therefore, is whether globally driven economic policies, when translated into national education and welfare policies, can be sufficiently sensitive to local – even individual – concerns or whether the ‘local’ dimension will prove to be resistant to proposed governmental change.

This chapter is concerned with problems associated with the translation of policy into practice. Young people in the United Kingdom are now expected by policy makers to stay in education and training beyond the statutory minimum school-leaving age and, therefore, to defer their entry into the full-time labour market.

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Transitions from School to Work
Globalization, Individualization, and Patterns of Diversity
 , pp. 145 - 164
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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