Adult Graduates' Negotiations of Age(ing) and Employability

Autor/inn/en	Siivonen, Päivi; Isopahkala-Bouret, Ulpukka
Titel	Adult Graduates' Negotiations of Age(ing) and Employability
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Work, 29 (2016) 3, S.352-372 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-9080
DOI	10.1080/13639080.2014.939161
Schlagwörter	Employment Potential; Foreign Countries; Aging (Individuals); Interviews; Age; Adults; Labor Market; Lifelong Learning; Secondary Schools; Universities; Quality of Working Life; College Graduates; High School Graduates; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Ausland; Aging; Altern; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Alter; Lebensalter; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Sekundarschule; University; Universität; Arbeitsqualität; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; High school; High schools; Graduate; Graduates; Oberschule; Absolvent; Absolventin; Finnland
Abstract	In this article, we will explore Finnish adult graduates' social positioning in relation to age and ageing, and the new discursive framing of employability that is firmly expressed in national as well as in European policy agendas. Age is here understood as a social construction and ageing as a lifelong process. We will analyse our joint interview data of general upper secondary school and university graduates, aged 30-60, from a discursive and narrative point of view. We will explore how the adult graduates we have interviewed negotiate and interpret age(ing) in relation to the employability discourse. Furthermore, we will explore some of the consequences of undertaking formal, academically oriented education in adulthood and not normatively in youth. As a result, we argue that age(ing) may be interpreted as a positional (dis)advantage notwithstanding the chronological age of the graduate or the level of the degree achieved in adulthood. Furthermore, becoming an entrepreneur of one's own life willing to invest in continuous learning and education is the requisite at any age, and in no lesser extent for an older adult, willing to enhance her/his employability and stay actively involved in working life. (As Provided).
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