NYRIS 11
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    • I Stream: Active Youth Participation
    • II Stream: Youth Work: Theory and Practices
    • III Stream: Education and Transitions
    • IV Stream: Work Transitions
    • V Stream: Transitions and Family
    • VI Stream: Violence
    • VII Stream: Religion and Rights
    • VIII Stream: Youth Cultures and Lifestyles
    • IX Stream: Virtual Youth Cultures
    • X Stream: Ethnicities
    • XI Stream: Gender
    • XII Stream: Young People and Global Citizenship
    • XIII Stream: Well-being of Young Adults...
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Youth Research Society

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III Stream: Education and Transitions

3.1. Vocational Education: Class, Gender, Ethnicity
3.2. Aspirations
3.3. Education at the Margins
3.4. Global Education
3.5. Social Inequalities in Education

Content of the sessions

3.1. Vocational Education: Class, Gender, Ethnicity

Coordinator

Peder Hjort-Madsen   
MA, PhD scholar
Department of Psychology and Educational Studies
Roskilde University
Denmark
E-mail peder@ruc.dk

Participants

Hidden Expectations within the Danish VET System
Hjort-Madsen, Peder of Roskilde University

Minority Youth in Upper Secondary VET – a Choice of Heart or of Necessity?
Hegna, Kristinn of NOVA

Why Low School Achievers Manage to Qualify in the Swiss VET System
Imdorf, Christian & Hupka-Brunner, Sandra of University of Basel & Blossfeld, Hans Peter & Buchholz, Sandra of University of Bamberg

Teaching and Learning in Vocational Education and Training from a Student's Perspective
Vestergaard, Arnt Louw of Center for Youth Research/ Aarhus University

Time and Place

Sessions 1
Monday 13th
15.30-17.00

EDU 3
Educarium,
Assistentinkatu 5

3.2. Aspirations

Coordinator

Kristinn Hegna
PhD, Senior Researcher
NOVA – Norwegian Social Research
Norway
E-mail kristinn.hegna@nova.no

Participants

Minority Youths’ Ideas about their Future in Education
Hegna, Kristinn of NOVA

Understanding High Educational Aspiration of Turkish Immigrant Parents
Yilmaz, Erbil of University of Bamberg

Higher Education as a Social Mobility Institution: the Expectations of Youth and the Reality of 21 Century
Burlutskaya, Maria of Ural State Pedagogical University

The Youth of Karelia Facing the Choice of Professional Education: Major Factors and Dynamics of Priorities
Shvets, Larisa & Zlokazova, Elena of Karelian Branch of North-West Academy of Public Administration

Time and Place

Sessions 2
Tuesday 14th
09.00-10.30

EDU 3
Educarium,
Assistentinkatu 5

3.3. Education at the Margins

Coordinator

Reetta Mietola
Researcher
University of Helsinki
Finland
E-mail reetta.mietola@helsinki.fi 

Participants

Role of Family in the Shaping of Feasible Futures of Young People on the Margins
Aaltonen, Sanna of Finnish Youth Research Network

Between Hopes and Possibilities – Young Adults and Agency in the Field of Vocational Special Needs Education
Niemi, Anna-Maija & Mietola, Reetta of University of Helsinki

Marginal Youth Transitions
Pless, Mette of The Danish Centre for Youth Research, DPU, Aarhus University

Time and Place

Sessions 3
Tuesday 14th
11.00-12.30

EDU 3
Educarium,
Assistentinkatu 5

3.4. Global Education

Coordinator

Lihong Huang 
PhD, Researcher
NOVA – Norwegian Social Research,
Norway
E-mail lihong.huang@nova.no

Participants

Global Youth Culture and New Forms of Ethnicity: The Schooling Experience of Lerners in Disadvantage Schools of Brussels and Johannesburg
Jacobs, Marie of University of Louvain (UCL)

Schools, Young People and Their Role in Local and Global Communities: a Case Study Analysis of the Perspectives Held by Australian and Indonesian Young People Involved in an Internationally-Run Global Education Program.
Christensen, Renee of The University of Melbourne

Postnational Realities and Bilingual Possibilities – Discourses, Subject Positions and Dilemmas, of the Mother Tongue
Kenndal, Robert of University of Uppsala

Time and Place

Sessions 4
Tuesday 14th
15.30-17.00

EDU 3
Educarium,
Assistentinkatu 5

3.5. Social inequalities in education 

Coordinator

Sanna Aaltonen
PhD, Special Researcher
Finnish Youth Research Network
Finland
E-mail sanna.aaltonen@nuorisotutkimus.fi

Participants

Social Differences and Classroom Culture in the Upper Secondary Education
Murning, Susanne of Aarhus University

An Ethnographic Exploration of the Boy Challenge in School
Lunabba, Harry of University of Helsinki

Where have All the Young Men Gone? The Importance of Gender in Relation to Young Danes Choices of Higher Education
Hutters, Camilla of Center for Youth Research, Aarhus University

Inner Logic’s and Subjective Strategies in Young Adults Ways of Coping with an Increasing Demand for Completing a Youth Education
Katznelson, Noemi of Center for Youth Research, Aarhus University

Time and Place

Sessions 5
Wednesday 15th
10.00-12.30

EDU 3
Educarium,
Assistentinkatu 5

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