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Young people on the margins: In need of more choices and more chances in twenty‐first century Scotland
Author(s) -
Finlay Ian,
Sheridan Marion,
McKay Jane,
Nudzor Hope
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
british educational research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1469-3518
pISSN - 0141-1926
DOI - 10.1080/01411920903168532
Subject(s) - construct (python library) , variety (cybernetics) , sociology , mythology , gender studies , psychology , pedagogy , history , artificial intelligence , computer science , programming language , classics
The aim of this study was to find out more about the lives of young people in the category ‘not in education, employment or training’ (NEET). We worked intensively with 26 young people in four smaller groups, spending three days with each group. During our time with them we engaged in a variety of creative and artistic activities designed to help them to construct accounts of their lives for us with the purpose of gaining an understanding of what it was like to be NEET. Three significant issues that emerged from these life stories are discussed in this paper. These are the problematic nature of the discourse of NEET sub‐groups; the challenges of school‐exclusion policies and practices; and the myth of low aspirations.