TY - BOOK ID - 78643332 TI - Governance of educational trajectories in Europe : pathways, policy and practice AU - Amaral, Marcelo Parreira do AU - Cuconato, Morena AU - Dale, Roger AU - Walther, Andreas PY - 2016 SN - 1350053384 1474287204 1472589548 9781472589538 147258953X 9781472589545 9781474287203 9781472589521 9781472589514 1472589521 9781472589521 1472589513 9781472589514 9781350053380 PB - New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, DB - UniCat KW - Educational attainment KW - Education and state KW - Educational sociology KW - Education and sociology KW - Social problems in education KW - Society and education KW - Sociology, Educational KW - Sociology KW - Education KW - Attainment, Educational KW - Education level completed KW - Level of education completed KW - School years completed KW - Years of school completed KW - Academic achievement KW - Social aspects KW - Aims and objectives KW - School management KW - Europe UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78643332 AB - "Drawing on findings from a large EU-funded research project that took place over three years, this book analyses educational trajectories of young people in eight European countries: Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. Contributors explore interactions between structural and institutional contexts of educational trajectories, the individual meaning attached to education and the strategies adopted by young people to cope with its demands. The book also analyses the decision-making processes of individual students, placing them firmly within the social contexts of their families, local schools, national education systems and welfare states, as well as transnational policy contexts. In considering educational disadvantage, the book is based on primary, cross-national research with systematic analysis of the different themes addressed. As every chapter is co-authored by two or three researchers, each based in a different country, the book goes beyond the usual country-based chapter design to provide an enriched insight into both comparative theory and research methods"-- "Drawing on findings from a large EU-funded research project that took place over three years, this book analyses educational trajectories of young people in eight European countries: Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. Contributors explore interactions between structural and institutional contexts of educational trajectories, the individual meaning attached to education and the strategies adopted by young people to cope with its demands. The book also analyses the decision-making processes of individual students, placing them firmly within the social contexts of their families, local schools, national education systems and welfare states, as well as transnational policy contexts. In considering educational disadvantage, the book is based on primary, cross-national research with systematic analysis of the different themes addressed. As every chapter is co-authored by two or three researchers, each based in a different country, the book goes beyond the usual country-based chapter design to provide an enriched insight into both comparative theory and research methods."-- ER -