Research : Lost Generation? New strategies for youth and education
Educational Futures Vol.3(1) February 2011 - The article asks whether young people today really are a ‘lost generation’ as they have been called by the media. Or whether ‘new strategies for youth and education’ can bring together student and non-student youth in new forms of learning with their teachers through which the latter could recover their expertise if not their professionalism. The authors suggest that, rather than being ‘lost,’ many young people know perfectly well where they are but are ‘stuck’. Anxious to enter employment, repay debts and move on with their lives, they are a generation all dressed up but with nowhere to go. Inevitably, amongst the immediate consequences of this will be even more pressure for top grades in examinations to gain HE places with higher fees combined with pressure for shorter, local and more vocational courses. Concomitantly, many young people may begin to believe that education is losing its legitimacy as an agent for moving their lives forward into a meaningful and productive adult world. Hopefully the article can contribute to debate in Educationalfutures on how best to confront this development
- Author/Editor
- Patrick Ainley
- Publishing Year
- 2011
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