Learning and work in the lives of young adults
Learning and work in the lives of young adults
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年轻人生活中的学习和工作
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2006
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Rachel Brooks
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很明显，对许多年轻人来说，学习、工作和休闲之间的平衡在最近几十年发生了很大变化。现在，许多学生在义务教育后的整个教育期间都在工作，在提出任何高等教育申请之前就进入劳动力市场，并在大学期间继续工作。在某种程度上，这可能是由于：年轻人希望保持特定的“消费生活方式”;许多经济部门转向灵活的劳动力，为学生提供了更多的就业机会;以及攻读学位的费用不断增加。在这种情况下，许多年轻人已经变得非常习惯于“兼顾”工作、教育和社会生活。本文通过对30名20多岁的毕业生的研究，探讨了教育和就业相结合的经历是否可以通过这些模式的“正常化”促进终身学习，或者相反，许多年轻人在义务教育后经历的经济压力是否会阻碍他们继续学习。
It is clear that for many young people the balance between learning, work and leisure has shifted considerably over recent decades. Many students now work throughout the whole of their post‐compulsory education, entering the labour market well before any higher education applications have been made, and continue to work throughout their time at university. In part, this may be driven by: young people’s desires to maintain a particular ‘consumer lifestyles’; shifts towards flexible labour in many sectors of the economy that have provided more opportunities for student employment; as well as the increasing costs of studying for a degree. Within this context, many young people have become very practised at ‘juggling’ a job, an education and a social life. Drawing on a study of 30 graduates in their mid‐twenties, this paper explores whether the experience of combining education and employment may facilitate lifelong learning, through the ‘normalisation’ of these patterns or whether, conversely, the financial pressures that many young people experience during their post‐compulsory education act as a disincentive to pursue further learning.