What Are We Educating Our Youth for? The Role of Education in the Era of Vocational Schools for "Dummies" and Diploma Mill Universities in Ukraine

Autor/in	Korzh, Alla
Titel	What Are We Educating Our Youth for? The Role of Education in the Era of Vocational Schools for "Dummies" and Diploma Mill Universities in Ukraine
Quelle	In: European Education, 45 (2013) 1, S.50-73 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1056-4934
DOI	10.2753/EUE1056-4934450103
Schlagwörter	Role of Education; Vocational Education; Case Studies; Educational Change; Cultural Capital; Social Capital; Equal Education; Labor Market; Social Differences; Disadvantaged Youth; Educational Quality; Residential Care; Access to Education; Higher Education; Employment Opportunities; Qualitative Research; Observation; Semi Structured Interviews; Neoliberalism; High School Students; Foreign Countries; Ukraine + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsauftrag; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Bildungsreform; Sozialkapital; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Sozialer Unterschied; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance; Qualitative Forschung; Beobachtung; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Ausland
Abstract	This qualitative multisite case study contextualized in the political economy of Ukraine examines orphanage youth's conceptualization of the role of vocational and higher education in the neoliberal era and highlights educational transformations in Ukraine. Drawing on Bourdieu's forms of capital (cultural, social, and economic), this research sheds light on educational and labor market inequalities confronting Ukrainian marginalized youth. The findings reveal that vocational schools, into which orphanage alumni are tracked en masse, offer substandard quality of education and obsolete skills for a market economy, ultimately leading to destitution. A handful of orphanage alumni who manage to access higher education, in pursuit of coveted credentials (cultural capital), face challenges in the labor market. Social capital, or connections and associated bribes, of which orphanage youth tend to be deprived, overrides cultural capital and limits Ukrainian marginalized youth's labor market opportunities. (Contains 9 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10