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Understanding Employer Engagement in Education
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ABSTRACT
This collection focuses on employer engagement in education, how it is delivered and the differentiated impact it has on young people in their progression through schooling and higher education into the labour market. The focus is not narrowly on vocational or technical education or work-related learning, but on how employer engagement (eg, work experience, internships, careers education, workplace visits, mentoring, enterprise education etc) influences the experiences and outcomes of the broad range of young people across mainstream academic learning programmes. The essays explore the different ways in which education can support or constrain social mobility and, in particular, how employer engagement in education can have significant impact upon social mobility – both positive and negative.
Leading international contributors examine issues surrounding employer engagement and social mobility: conceptualisations of employer engagement; trends in social mobility; employer engagement and social class; access and management of work experience; social capital and aspiration; access to employment.
The book makes employer engagement an innovative focus in relation to the well established fields of social mobility and school to work transition. By examining what difference employer engagement makes, the essays raise questions about conventional models and show how research drawing on different fields and disciplines can be brought together to provide a more coherent and convincing account. Building on new theorisations and combining existing and new data, the collection offers a systematic exploration of the influence of socio-economic status on school-to-work transitions, and addresses how educational policy can shape more efficient labour market outcomes. In doing so, it draws on, and speaks to, existing literature which has considered such questions from the perspectives of gender, ethnicity and social disadvantage.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
PART 1 Conceptualising employer engagement in education
chapter 3|13 pages
A conceptual framework for the American labour market: engagement, achievement and transition
part |2 pages
PART 2 Social and economic contexts
chapter 6|22 pages
The winners and losers in the ‘hourglass’ labour market
chapter 7|13 pages
Local labour markets: what effects do they have on the aspirations of young people?
chapter 8|14 pages
The impact of fi nancial and cultural capital on FE students’ education and employment progression
part |2 pages
PART 3 Equity and access in the experience of employer engagement
chapter 9|20 pages
The views of young Britons (aged 19–24) on their teenage experiences of school-mediated employer engagement
chapter 10|13 pages
‘That aroma of where they are likely to go’: employer engagement in high-performing English independent schools
chapter 11|14 pages
The role of work experience in the UK higher education admissions process
chapter 12|13 pages
How school work experience policies can widen student horizons or reproduce social inequality
part |2 pages
PART 4 Economic impact and employment outcomes