3. Education and Imagined Futures Flashcards
What is social mobility?
The movement from the social class one is born into to another social class.
**Education is often described as being the key to upward social mobility
What is massification?
Describes the shift in education being a destination for a limited, often privileged few, to being a widely accessible ‘mass’ experience. This process involved expansion, with the provision of new universities and new courses.
This means that young people are increasingly encouraged to complete their upper secondary schooling at 17 or 18 and then to participate in the tertiary education system, either at university or vocational education sector.
What is human capital?
Related to knowledge. It denotes the economic principle that skills, attributes, intelligence, training, experience can all be certified and measured through qualifications, and that more qualified populations will produce economic benefits.
What is the knowledge economy?
An economy supposedly centered on growing levels of highly skilled, information-based employment.
Usually cited as a key motivation in government drives to have more people gain university degrees.
What is marketization?
The introduction of market-based principles into the newly expanded higher education system
(including league tables, student satisfaction evaluations, and reconfiguring of students as fee-paying ‘consumers’)
What does OECD stand for?
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
What is seen as the “great leveller” of life chances?
Education
Youth sociologists’ predominant interest in the ‘youth and young adult’ age bracket spans from __ to __ years of age.
18 to 30
While university participation has increased dramatically over the last 20 years, there is also a massive increase in _________ training courses across OECD countries.
vocational
True or false: the majority of young people attend university
False
Which group is more likely to dominate in university and which is more likely to dominate in the vocational sector?
University: middle class
Vocation: working class
More young people than ever are engaging with some form of education between 16 and 24 years of age. What does this mean?
This means that young people are dramatically increasing the level and number of qualifications they hold.
There has also been considerable growth in the ‘non-academic’ qualification market where diplomas and a variety of ‘certificates’ have also been recognized as relevant in our changing economic climate.
Who is this useful for? How does it help them?
These qualifications are typically attained by young people who are unemployed or low-skilled, and they rely on using such qualifications to ‘signal’ their employability to potential employers.
Across OECD countries, young adults with tertiary qualifications now make up the largest or smallest share of young people. What’s the percentage?
They make up the largest share of young people, 44%
Explain the Skills Revolution.
More young people than ever are engaging with some form of education between 16 and 24 years of age. Consequently, they are dramatically increasing the level and number of qualifications they hold, thus making them more educated than any other generation that came before them.
