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    Travelling hopefully: an exploration of the limited possibilities for Level 1 students in the English further education system

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    Authors
    Atkins, Liz cc
    Affiliation
    University of Huddersfield
    Issue Date
    01/07/2008
    
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    Abstract
    This paper discusses the findings of a small?scale qualitative study exploring the aspirations and learning identities of three groups of Level 1 students in two English further education (FE) colleges. Emerging identities are explored in the context of classed and gendered dispositions and the educational positioning of the young people. Empirical sections show that the young peoples lifestyle aspirations have a heavy celebrity influence and that their occupational aspirations have an unreal, dreamlike quality associated with a lack of awareness of the trajectories they would need to follow to achieve their ambitions. Further, the paper argues that whilst the young people are developing identities in which learning, leisure, work and domesticity are synonymous, leisure identities assume the greatest importance to them. The paper concludes that this aspect of their young lives is significant since it provides an escapefrom the mundane drudgery of a low?value vocational programme and the inevitability of a future engaged in low?paid, low?skillled work.
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    Atkins, L., (2008). 'Travelling hopefully: an exploration of the limited possibilities for Level 1 students in the English further education system'.Research in Post?Compulsory Education,13(2), pp.195-204. DOI: 10.1080/13596740802141329
    Publisher
    Taylor and Francis
    Journal
    Research in Post Compulsory Education
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10545/623931
    DOI
    10.1080/13596740802141329
    Additional Links
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13596740802141329
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    1356748
    EISSN
    17475112
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1080/13596740802141329
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