scholarly journals ¿Estudias o trabajas? La toma de decisiones en los itinerarios formativos de jóvenes

Author(s):  
Vicent Horcas López ◽  
Elena Giménez Urraco

Resumen:Este trabajo aborda el análisis de los discursos de los y las jóvenes en la toma de decisiones sobre sus itinerarios formativos y las transiciones escolares y entre escuela y trabajo. A partir de las entrevistas a jóvenes en dos proyectos de investigación, uno en itinerarios considerados como de “fracaso escolar y abandono prematuro” (educación obligatoria), y otro en itinerarios considerados de “éxito” (hacia la educación superior) pretendemos aproximarnos a los factores que influyen y dan sentido a las decisiones que toma el alumnado en sus diferentes posibilidades académicas. En este marco, la relación pedagógica se muestra como un elemento clave de vinculación con el centro escolar. Sin embargo, el papel del profesorado en la toma de decisiones no es por sí solo decisivo, sino que se combina con otros elementos contextuales y/o estructurales como la clase social, el capital cultural, el rendimiento educativo, el efecto barrio y la familia. Abstract:This paper analyze of the discourses of the young people in the decision making on their training pathways and the school transitions and school-to-work transitions. Based on interviews with young people in two research projects. The first training considered as “school failure and early school leaving” (compulsory education), and the second research considered training pathways of “success” (toward higher education) we intend to approach the factors that influence and give meaning to the decisions that the students take in their different academic possibilities. In this context, the pedagogical relationship is shown as a key element of linkage with the school. However, the role of teachers in decision-making is not alone decisive, but is combined with other contextual and structural elements such as social class, cultural capital, educational performance, neighborhood effect and family.

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 396-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Donovan

In the Australian education system, there are substantial class inequalities in educational outcomes and transitions. These inequalities persist despite increased choice and individual opportunity for young people. This article explores high school students’ experiences of class in a social context they largely believe to be a meritocracy. Specifically, it asks: how does class shape young people’s thinking and decision-making about their post-school futures? I use Bourdieu’s ‘habitus’ as a frame to understand the role of class in young people’s lives, stressing its generative and heterogeneous aspects. Drawing on qualitative-led mixed methods research, this article argues that young people have internalised the ‘doxa’ of meritocracy, agency and ambition, conceiving of themselves as individual agents in this context. However, risk and security, opportunities and constraints, are not distributed equally in a class-stratified society. Young people from working-class backgrounds more commonly imagine insecure, uncertain futures.


1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Wendy Patton

Early school leavers have always been perceived as being at a disadvantage in the labour market, even prior to the days of extreme youth unemployment. Although recent years have seen increasing numbers of young people remain at school or engage in some other form of post-compulsory education or training, there are still many young people who leave school early and do not complete any form of post-compulsory education or training. This paper attempts to review the Australian context on this issue, including research findings on profiles of early school leavers, their eventual employment status and its individual and social cost. The paper then briefly reviews government policy and suggestions for education and training structures and, in particular, the renewed focus on career education and facets of its role with early school leavers.


Author(s):  
Ingrid Schoon

This article reviews the evidence on young people in the UK making the transition from school to work in a changing socioeconomic climate. The review draws largely on evidence from national representative panels and follows the lives of different age cohorts. I show that there has been a trend toward increasingly uncertain and precarious employment opportunities for young people since the 1970s, as well as persisting inequalities in educational and occupational attainment. The joint role of social structure and human agency in shaping youth transitions is discussed. I argue that current UK policies have forgotten about half of the population of young people who do not go to university, by not providing viable pathways and leaving more and more young people excluded from good jobs and employment prospects. Recommendations are made for policies aimed at supporting the vulnerable and at provision of career options for those not engaged in higher education.


2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanna Aaltonen

This paper seeks to contribute to the research on the role of the family in the educational decision-making of young people by highlighting two overlooked areas of study: vocational education and the role of siblings. It explores young, mainly working-class Finnish 15- to 17-year-olds’ future expectations and decision-making processes concerning the choice between the academic and vocational tracks by drawing on interviews with the young participants of targeted support programmes and their parents. The aim of the paper is to shed light both on how parents try to influence their children's post-school choices and on young people's perceptions of the influence that parents and older brothers and sisters had on their aspirations towards vocational education. The paper demonstrates how horizons for action and educational choices are influenced by family traditions and advice, but that the pieces of advice dispensed by parents and siblings are not necessarily in congruence with each other. The familial suggestions work as a point of reference which is acknowledged and reflected on in the young people's process of mapping and recognising their own preferences. The paper suggests that while the goals of parents and older siblings would not necessarily be upward mobility, but rather to help young people to make a decent choice within a sector corresponding to their own, it is important to acknowledge their influence as a resource valued by many young people.


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Guillén ◽  
K. Sáenz ◽  
J.F. López

Key words: Administration, democracy, municipality government, participating civic committeesAbstract. The fundamental basics of participating civic committees with regards to the governmental decision making at the municipality levels are described. An example and a practical case resulting from research on participation of these committees for the Monterrey municipality are provided. The role of these civic participating committees in good democratic functioning and correct achievement of the aims of the governmental plans for the enhancement and improvement of the sociopolitical, economical and environmental quality ofcitizen’s life are discussed.Palabras claves: Administración, comités de participación ciudadana, democracia, gobierno municipalResumen. Se describen las bases fundamentales de la participación de los comités ciudadanas en la toma de decisiones gubernamentales a nivel de los gobiernos municipales. Se presenta un caso y un ejemplo práctico, como resultado de una investigación de la participación de estos comités para el municipio de Monterrey. Se discuta el papel de la participación de estos comités ciudadanos para la buena marcha democrática y el logro correcto de los objetivos de los planes gubernamentales para mantener y elevar la calidadsociopolítica, económica y ambiental de la vida de los ciudadanos.


2014 ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Stéfano Zamagni

Nivel: Ponencia Recibido: 28 de mayo de 2012 Aprobado: 21 de julio de 2012Conferencia dictada en la Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez con ocasión de la ceremonia en que se le concedió la medalla Cardenal Raúl Silva Henríquez. Resumen Este documento, editado por el Dr. Justino Gómez de Benito, es una transcripción de la presentación del profesor Stefano Zamagni. En esta ponencia, el profesor Zamagni aborda tres cuestiones. La primera es la concepción que los economistas tienen sobre la noción de crisis. Luego, pasa a presentar el papel que juega la ética en la economía, específicamente para discernir entre las alternativas para la toma de decisiones y, finalmente, plantea la propuesta de la Economía de Comunión. En la última parte del documento se muestran las inquietudes que se desarrollaron en la reunión, a través de preguntas de los participantes. Palabras clave: Economía Civil, Crisis Económica, Economía de Comunión, Ética, Empresas. Abstract This document, edited by Dr. Justino Benito Gomez, is a transcript of the presentation by Professor Stefano Zamagni. In his lecture, Professor Zamagni addresses three issues. The first is the concept that economists have about the notion of crisis. Then he goes on presenting the role of ethics in the economy, particularly, to discern between alternatives for decision-making process and, finally, he puts forward a proposal for the Economy of Communion. In the last part of this paper, the concerns, shown in the meeting , are developed through participants’ questions. Keywords: Civil Economy, Economic Crisis, The Economy of Communion, Ethics, Enterprises


Author(s):  
Katy Huxley ◽  
Rhys Davies ◽  
Suhaer Yunus

There is a general agreement that receiving appropriate and timely careers guidance enhances the likelihood of an individual’s participation in post-compulsory education. However, little is understood about how careers guidance influences the choices of learners. This paper explores the educational journey of learners’ who enrol within the Further Education sector in Wales, analysing whether the receipt of careers guidance is in anyway associated with these outcomes. This study utilises the linked database of school and pupil records, combining information from the Welsh National Pupil Database (NPD) with individual learner records from the Lifelong Learning Wales Record (LLWR) for young people who are registered at post-compulsory education providers, combined with anonymised client information held by Careers Wales. Data for two cohorts of Year 11 pupils (2012/13 and 2013/14) who subsequently enrolled in courses within the FE sector during the following academic year is analysed. Multivariate analysis reveals that, as expected, there is a strong link between GCSE attainment and learning aims at FE. However, the analysis also suggests that receipt of careers guidance may encourage learners to make choices at FE that are more commensurate with their abilities. Those with higher levels of attainment are also more likely to enrol on higher level learning programmes if they have also been in receipt of careers guidance. Likewise, those with low levels of attainment at GCSE are more likely to enrol on learning programmes with lower qualification aims if they have been in receipt of careers guidance. Receiving careers guidance through interviews increased the likelihood of registering on WBL programmes. Furthermore, learners on WBL programmes who have received careers guidance are less likely to withdraw from their courses early. The study offers important insights as to the role of career guidance in supporting young people in their transitions to post-compulsory education.


2021 ◽  
pp. 001872672110546
Author(s):  
Amy Way

In January of 2018, after decades of sexual abuse of hundreds of athletes under his medical care, Larry Nassar faced 156 of the women he victimized when they testified at his sentencing hearing and detailed the abuse. In the wake of the Nassar verdict, gymnastics and other youth sports organizations have come under fire for abusive practices that victimize young people. Scholars have recently argued for an approach to understanding sexual violence as an organizational, rather than individual phenomenon. The power organizations have to inflict violence on their members requires an understanding of the increased role of organizations in our decision-making and the shaping of our values and desires. Through an analysis of testimonies submitted by the women who were victimized by Nassar as children, I argue that violence was intentionally deployed as an organizational strategy by USA Gymnastics. Abusive organizational practices traumatized girls, leading them to recalibrate their expectations for what was normal and acceptable, ultimately facilitating their abuse. I propose ‘high stakes organizations’ as contexts particularly vulnerable to violent organizational practices. I argue that in these high stakes organizations, trauma is likely to be deployed as a strategy for organizational commitment, further fostering precarity in modern organizations.


Author(s):  
Juliana Osmani ◽  
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Increasingly, organizations are oriented towards groups to make decisions. This is because some contextual factors have undergone significant changes. Companies are operating in a competitive, dynamic and complex environment, having to face with unstructured and non-programmed decisions. Organizations are also oriented towards participatory processes in order to benefit from the important advantages that these processes offer. The main goal of the current research is to understand if there is a correlation between group decision-making propensity, age and gender. The motivation for the current research starts from the consideration that the degree of preference for group decision-making processes determines the contribution and commitment of the members, with important consequences on the decisions’ effectiveness. The processing and analysis of the collected data indicate that adults prefer group decision-making processes more than young people and women prefer group decision-making processes less than men.


Author(s):  
Paloma Mendoza Cortes

El presente artículo se deriva de la tesis doctoral El proceso de toma de decisiones en el Ejército Mexicano: la función de la Inteligencia Militar. La investigación es retomada para analizar la operación de captura de Ovidio Guzmán, en Culiacán, Sinaloa, México. Se confrontan fuentes de primera mano de inteligencia militar con información de fuentes abiertas y se determinan los posibles fallos de inteligencia y contrainteligencia que condujeron al gobierno mexicano a tomar la decisión de liberar a Ovidio Guzmán frente a los actos de violencia y al uso del ciberespacio por el crimen organizado para tal fin. A partir de la información consultada, se concluye que existió una falta de cooperación interagencial y fallos del Gabinete de Seguridad de México en el proceso de toma de decisiones en situaciones críticas. Abstract This analysis is based on the dissertation The Mexican Army decision-making process: The role of Military Intelligence. The original research is applied to the case of the Ovidio Guzmán capture operation in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. First-hand sources of military intelligence are confronted with information from open sources to evaluate the possible intelligence and counterintelligence failures that can explain the Mexican government´s decision to release Ovidio Guzman after members of his cartel committed acts of extreme violence and exploited social media. Based on the sources consulted, the author concludes the key factors that led to the failure of the operation were the lack of inter-agency cooperation and deficiencies in the decision-making process by the Security Cabinet of Mexico.


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