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Regulating Transitions from School to Work An Institutional Ethnography of Activation Work in Action Stephan Dahmen
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Dahmen, Stephan <p>Stephan Dahmen, Universität Bielefeld, Deutschland</p>, Author.
- Series:
- BiUP general.
- BiUP General
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Youth.
- Welfare State.
- Transitions.
- Human Service Organizations.
- Institutional Ethnography.
- Activation.
- Sociology of Conventions.
- Work.
- Education.
- Educational Research.
- Sociology of Education.
- Social Pedagogy.
- History of Education.
- Bielefeld University Press.
- Local Subjects:
- Youth.
- Welfare State.
- Transitions.
- Human Service Organizations.
- Institutional Ethnography.
- Activation.
- Sociology of Conventions.
- Work.
- Education.
- Educational Research.
- Sociology of Education.
- Social Pedagogy.
- History of Education.
- Bielefeld University Press.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Dahmen, Regulating Transitions from School An Institutional Ethnography of Activation Work in Action
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld Bielefeld University Press 2021
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Stephan Dahmen, born in 1982, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Educational Science at Universität Bielefeld, Germany. His current research covers organizational ethnography in human service organizations and education, social inequalities in education and work, the transformations of contemporary youth and childhood and qualitative research methods.
- Summary:
- How are activation programs for the young unemployed implemented? How do street-level bureaucrats deal with competing rationalities and demands for action? Transition policies increasingly aim at promoting self-regulation and constructing employable subjects. Stephan Dahmen explores the practical regulation of biographical transitions in activation programs for the young unemployed by focusing on the interactive accomplishment of activation work. The study reveals how the critical tensions of activation policies are continually re-interpreted and adapted to local contingencies and describes the various organisational technologies used for creating employable subjects.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 1. Introduction 9 2.1 How Institutions Structure the Youth Phase 17 2.2. Situating the Swiss Transition Regime 27 2.3. The Politics of VET in Switzerland and the Emergence of Transition Measures 39 2.4. Excursus: Collectivist Skill Formation Systems and the Right to Education 53 2.5. From the Emergence of a Problem Towards the Construction of a Policy 67 Einleitung 75 3.1. The Life-Course as an Institutional Program and a Subjective Construction 80 3.2. The Organizational Regulation of Biographies 93 4.1. Street-level Bureaucrats, Institutionalized Organizations and People Processing Organizations 113 5.1. A Focus on Activation Practices 153 6.1. A Short Introduction to Motivational Semesters 177 6.2. Conflicts Between Orders of Worth and situated Compromises in Human Service Work: The Case of Sanctions 191 6.3. Gate-keeping and the Negotiation of Employability: The Intermediary Function of Motivational Semesters 208 6.4. Constructing the Client that Can Create Himself: Technologies of Agency and the Production of a Will 225 6.5. "Making Up" Viable Future Selves Through Evaluation - Working with the Portfolio-Tool 239 6.6. Guided Self-Exploration as a "Narrative Machinery" that Produces Intelligible Subjects 251 7.1. Organizations as the "Missing Link" for the Mediation Between Systemic Requirements and Subjectivity 255 7.2. The institutional Production of Subjectivity: Biographisation - Valuation - Optimisation - Autonomisation 260 8. Bibliography 277 9. Annex 309
- Notes:
- Doctoral Thesis Universität Bielefeld 2019
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-307).
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 http://www.transcript-verlag.de/open-access-bei-transcript
- ISBN:
- 9783839457061
- 3839457068
- OCLC:
- 1257324047
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