Unit details
EEN708 - Youth Learners in Adult Environments
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| Offering information: | Not offered 2012, re-offered 2013. |
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| Offered at: | (X) |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| Offerings: | Trimester 2 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit chair: | J Angwin |
Content
Topics to be addressed in this unit include:
• Youth cultures and identity formation, including identities as learners, workers and members of peer groups and families;
• Adulthood transitions including post school transitions to workplace and institutional settings for further education and training;
• Discourses of ‘risk’ in post-compulsory education and training;
• National and international approaches to ‘the youth issue’;
• Critique of transition and pathway logics and the expression of these in contemporary youth policies
Assessment
Assignment 1, 50%, 3000 words
Assignment 2, 50%, 3000 words
Unit Fee Information
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8th June 2007