Family Mobility: Reconciling Career Opportunities and Educational Strategy

ISBN-13: 9780367868659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 222 str.

Catherine Doherty; Wendy Patton; Paul Shield

Opis

This sociological study explores how Australian families displaying different mobilities reconcile their career and education projects, to what effect. Defence families are moved frequently, absorbing institutional stresses as private troubles. In contrast, the selective mobility of middle class professional families contributes to the public is

Spis treści

1.The Family in More Mobile Times  2. Work/Family/Education Articulations in Space with Mobility Systems  3. Making Sense of Mobility in Family Narratives  4. Seeking Continuity in Circumstances not of our Choosing  5. Optimising Location In Circumstances of our Choosing  6. Movers and Stayers  7. Mobius Markets  8. Professionals’ Public/Private Dilemmas in Rural Service  9. Families Moving on to get Ahead  Appendix 1: Original Item Sets for their Corresponding Constructs

O autorze

Catherine Doherty is a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Education at Queensland University of Technology. She works in the sociology of education with an interest in mobile populations and educational markets. As well as this project, she has published research on international students in higher education, and international curriculum in secondary schools.

Wendy Patton is a professor and dean in the Faculty of Education at Queensland University of Technology, widely published in theoretical approaches to career studies across different populations in terms of age, socioeconomic background, and employment experience. She is currently the Series Editor of an International Career Development Book series by Sense Publishers.

Paul Shield is a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Education at Queensland University of Technology with expertise in quantitative methodologies. He has contributed to major systemic reviews of educational reform and a wide variety of educational studies.