ABSTRACT
This book explores student education transition and employability negotiation experiences in various contexts. It explores determinants of student transitions at three levels including macro, meso and micro but focuses on exploring affordances, constraints and strategies at the micro level. The framework underpinning the explorations at the micro level covers a range of different forms of capital including human, culture, social, identity, psychological and agentic.
The book is unique in three ways. First, it consists of chapters about critical discussion, empirical research and practical guidance about student transition experiences. The critical discussion and empirical research chapters explore and obtain insights about the complexity of student transitions and develop conceptual frameworks that guide the development of applicable practices. The book is, therefore, a useful resource for policy makers, institutions, academics, professionals and students. Second, it provides insights about how student transitions are determined by a range of factors at different levels. These insights extend discussions about student transitions in the current literature which have mainly explored impacts of policies, institutional programmes and human capital. Finally, it is international in focus because it draws on research with different cohorts of students and graduates in different contexts. Insights provided in the book are, therefore, rich, diverse and comparative.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|51 pages
School to tertiary education transitions
chapter 3|15 pages
Navigating post-school trajectories
chapter 4|17 pages
International students’ socialisation and transition experiences in high school
part II|105 pages
Education to work transitions
chapter 5|19 pages
Transitioning from education to the labour market
chapter 6|18 pages
Transitioning to vocational education
chapter 7|16 pages
Transitioning to the home labour market
chapter 8|14 pages
Transitioning from university to the teaching profession
chapter 9|17 pages
Reconceptualise graduate employability
part III|51 pages
Recommendations to develop practical resources for different stakeholders