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Guarded transitions?: Youth trajectories and school-to-work transition policies in Sweden
Department of Applied Educational Science, Umeå University, SE 901 87Umeå, Sweden.
Department of Applied Educational Science, Umeå University, SE 901 87Umeå, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7390-441X
2014 (English)In: International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, ISSN 0267-3843, E-ISSN 2164-4527, Vol. 19, no Sup1, p. 19-34Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [sv]

I Sverige liksom i andra OECD-länder har övergången skola-arbetsliv blivit allt mer utdragen och osäker. Även om Sverige traditionellt har räknats till den så kallade socialdemokratiska välfärdsstatsregimen har utbildnings- och ungdomspolitiken på senare år påverkats av nyliberala idéer. Ansvaret för att genomföra förändringarna av politiken har vilat mycket på landets 290 kommuner. Ungdomar förväntas också i allt större utsträckning själva ta ansvar för sina karriärer på såväl utbildningsmarknaden som arbetsmarknaden. Syftet med denna artikel är att kritiskt granska den nationella övergångspolitiken och det konkreta utfallet av denna på kommunnivå. I samband med denna analys prövas också några förklaringar till den stora andelen unga som inte fullföljer skolan och att så många unga hamnar i utanförskap.

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In Sweden as in most other OECD countries, school-to-work transitions have become extended and uncertain endeavours. School dropout and youth unemployment rates are comparatively high, and the so-called yo–yo transitions are common. Although traditionally characterised as a prominent example of a social democratic welfare regime, Sweden has recently incorporated numerous neo-liberal ideas into its educational and youth policies. The responsibility for managing and implementing these policies has been extensively devolved to the country’s 290 municipalities. Moreover, young people are increasingly expected to take exclusive responsibility for forging their own careers, and to be self-governing, enterprising and proactive, both within the educational quasi-market and beyond. The aim of this article was to critically analyse current Swedish national school-to-work transition policies as well as the ways in which local strategies and measures are implemented and developed within individual municipalities given the relatively broad latitude available to them, and to provide some tentative explanations for Sweden’s problems with school dropout rates and youth unemployment.

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Taylor & Francis, 2014. Vol. 19, no Sup1, p. 19-34
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school-to-work transitions, dropout, youth policies, local policies, Sweden
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-4220DOI: 10.1080/02673843.2013.852593ISI: 000435044100003Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84904577946Local ID: 16883OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-4220DiVA, id: diva2:1401050
Available from: 2020-02-28 Created: 2020-02-28 Last updated: 2024-12-01Bibliographically approved

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