Regulating Transitions from School to Work
An Institutional Ethnography of Activation Work in Action
1st Edition
Published on 4. June 2021
312 pages
978-3-8394-5706-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
2019
Universität Bielefeld
Language
English
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Germany
Publishing group
transcript
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
4
4 s/w Abbildungen
4 Illustrations, black and white
File size
4,08 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-8394-5706-1 (9783839457061)
DOI
10.14361/9783839457061
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Stephan Dahmen
Regulating Transitions from School to Work
An Institutional Ethnography of Activation Work in Action
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11/2024
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Person
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.
