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Tesis
Entorno EducativoB.4 Variables intervinientes
Esta tesis examina las oportunidades de los jóvenes en España matriculados en la Educación y Formación Profesional (FP) y el papel de la educación en la formación de estas oportunidades.
Año:2014
Autor/es
Directores
Universidad:
Universidad de Nottingham
Comunidad Autónoma:Ámbito internacional
País:Reino Unido
This thesis examines the opportunities for young people in Spain enrolled in Vocational Education and Training (VET) and the role of education in the formation of these opportunities. In the aftermath of the financial crisis, VET has returned to the list of educational policy priorities in European and International agendas under the banner of employment and growth.
Situated within an overarching commitment to fair education and work, and an understanding of both as intrinsic and necessary for human development, the study focused on a College in Spain; specifically, on the experiences of students,practitioners and employers viewed through the lens of the Capability Approach (CA) developed by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. The CA provided a framework for understanding young people’s heterogeneous life‐plans in order to move beyond measurable statistics and employability targets to a more nuanced understanding of well‐being and agency that includes, but is not restricted to, the economic dimension.
The notion of the students as diverse agents is complemented by the concept of social justice and the politics of difference provided by Iris Marion Young, which permitted an understanding of the collective freedoms of the subjects under scope in contemporary Spain, and how these are constrained by structural factors. Placing the study in social justice literature, vulnerability is acknowledged in Martha Fineman’s terms as universal and embodied, which positions individuals as inevitably dependent upon others and hence profoundly affected by social institutions. Taking vulnerability as humanly inherent and the well‐being of the students understood as the freedom to live their own lives as the main starting points, the framework constructed under the CA and the faces of oppression asks what the final goal of VET should be. This framework argues that enlarging the space of capabilities of young people is not limited to the area of skills and learning, but requires a VET that transforms current oppressive labour structures. To operationalise these ideas, the study employed semi‐structured interviews as the main method. The starting assumption was that in order to thoroughly understand the values within VET and the factors relating to the well‐ being and agency decisions of the students, it was necessary to interview the students in both their first and last years, whilst they were undertaking the mandatory placement in a company as part of their diploma. The sample was formed by 15 students, 8 practitioners (7 teachers and the Inspector of the College), and 6 employers. Alongside this sample, documentary and statistical data was assembled from Spanish Ministerial declarations, European bodies and international organisations in relation to education, labour and, specifically, VET strategies.
The study revealed a difference between the educational directives and the perspectives and values attached to VET by each of the groups that formed the study. Although the main weight of the research was given to the students’ lifeplans and experiences, the analysis of practitioners’ experiences revealed that further work on emotions and on students’ agency was a constant demand from the practitioners. Regarding the employers, contrary to the employability discourse, the interviews illuminated that their shared concern focused on the structural inequalities that limited students’ labour opportunities rather than on a lack of skills or the quality of VET. Consequently, the study concludes that students’ work experiences and transitions are subject to the precarious labour conditions, cultural environment, structural inequalities, limited economic resources and fragile welfare policies, which dominate the current Spanish panorama.
The lessons learned from the interviews with various VET stakeholders concern the limitations of the production model of VET at a time of economic recession. Taken together with the social justice literature this generates a human‐based theoretical framework for transforming VET, which can develop, support and even guarantee individual freedoms and societal well‐being. The thesis ends by considering how the College could act differently in order to enhance the capabilities of current students.
Investigación Descriptiva // Cualitativa
Detalle: La investigación se desarrolla principalmente desde una metodología cualitativa a través de la técnica de la entrevista, pero también incluye técnicas de análisis numéricas con el uso de datos estadísticos de informes de FP a nivel europeo y español para contextualizar el estado de la cuestión.
Detalle:
Detalle: Para la revisión bibliográfica se consultan y analizan diferentes documentos de formación profesional y documentación de política europea y española. Además, se recogen los informes y datos estadísticos más relevantes relacionados con la educación, la sociedad y el trabajo en España, Comunidad Valenciana y la Unión Europea.
Con los estudiantes que componen la muestra, se aplica una rejilla de vida (Life‐grids) en una primera entrevista que se realiza con ellos cuando están cursando su formación en el centro escolar (duración aprox. de 20 minutos cada una). Posteriormente, se les realiza una entrevista semiestructurada (40 minutos cada una) cuando se encuentran en el centro de prácticas y la información se amplia con entrevistas al resto de la muestra de este trabajo.
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