Rethinking Graduate Employability in Context : Discourse, Policy and Practice

Rethinking Graduate Employability in Context Discourse, Policy and Practice

This open access book offers critical, multidisciplinary analyses on graduate employability. The book examines employability at the macro, meso and micro levels: higher education policy, the labour market, higher education institutions, organisations, individuals and social groups, in European, Nort...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Siivonen, Päivi. editor (editor), Isopahkala-Bouret, Ulpukka. editor, Tomlinson, Michael. editor, Korhonen, Maija. editor, Haltia, Nina. editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2023.
Edición:1st ed. 2023.
Materias:
Education and state.
Education, Higher.
Professional education.
Vocational education.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Education Policy.
Higher Education.
Professional and Vocational Education.
Política educativa
Educació superior
Titulats universitaris
Ocupació
Llibres electrònics
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: Rethinking graduate employability in context
  • PART 1
  • 2.Graduate employability and its basis in possessive individualism
  • 3. Relative employability: Applying the insights of positional competition and conflict theories within the current higher education landscape
  • 4. Boosting employability through fostering an entrepreneurial mindset: Critical analysis of employability and entrepreneurship in EU policy documents
  • 5. The affective life of neoliberal employability discourse
  • 6. Grounding employability in both agency and collective identity: an emancipatory agenda for higher education
  • PART 2 - 7.Are graduates working in graduate occupations? Insights from the Portuguese labour market
  • 8. Institutionalisation of employability capitals in employment markets
  • 9. The vocational drift of French higher education and the employability of graduates
  • 10. Re-framing employability as a problem of perceived opportunities: The case of internships in a U.S. college using the Student Perceptions of Employment Opportunities (SPEO) framework
  • 11. Working-Class Adult Students: Negotiating Inequalities in the Graduate Labour Market
  • PART 3 - 12. Health as employability potential in business graduates' career imagination
  • 13. Finnish university students constructing their ideal employable identities – a case study of Top Performing Experts
  • 14. Strategies undertaken by international graduates to negotiate employability
  • 15. Employability as self-branding in job search games: A case of Finnish business graduates
  • 16. Negotiating (employable) graduate identity – Small story approach in qualitative follow-up research
  • 17. Epilogue.

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