Becoming Employable Students and "Ideal" Creative Workers: Exclusion and Inequality in Higher Education Work Placements

Autor/inn/en	Allen, K.; Quinn, J.; Hollingworth, S.; Rose, A.
Titel	Becoming Employable Students and "Ideal" Creative Workers: Exclusion and Inequality in Higher Education Work Placements
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 34 (2013) 3, S.431-452 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2012.714249
Schlagwörter	Employment Potential; Job Placement; Higher Education; Qualitative Research; Semi Structured Interviews; College Students; Neoliberalism; Labor Market; Foreign Countries; Social Mobility; Social Class; Gender Differences; Social Differences; Creativity; Employment Qualifications; Social Bias; Racial Differences; United Kingdom (England); United Kingdom (Wales) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Employment service; Employment services; Arbeitsvermittlung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Qualitative Forschung; Collegestudent; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Ausland; Soziale Mobilität; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Geschlechterkonflikt; Sozialer Unterschied; Kreativität; Employment qualification; Vocational qualification; Vocational qualifications; Berufliche Qualifikation; Rassenunterschied
Abstract	In this paper we explore how the "employable" student and "ideal" future creative worker is prefigured, constructed and experienced through higher education work placements in the creative sector, based on a recent small-scale qualitative study. Drawing on interview data with students, staff and employers, we identify the discourses and practices through which students are produced and produce themselves as neoliberal subjects. We are particularly concerned with "which" students are excluded in this process. We show how normative evaluations of what makes a "successful" and "employable" student and "ideal" creative worker are implicitly classed, raced and gendered. We argue that work placements operate as a key domain in which inequalities within both higher education and the graduate labour market are (re)produced and sustained. The paper offers some thoughts about how these inequalities might be addressed. (Contains 1 table and 3 notes.) (As Provided).
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