Youth transitions, social justice and career guidance in rural areas

Speaker: Rosie Alexander, Aarhus University, Denmark

Stay or leave dilemmas are common for young people in rural areas, especially when making decisions about education and employment after completion of schooling. Career education and guidance services are ideally placed to support young people with these dilemmas, as they are focused on supporting young people to make decisions about their futures.

However, models of career guidance rarely consider how place and mobility should be incorporated into provision. With evidence indicating that mobility and inequality are closely connected, supporting young people with mobility decisions in career guidance becomes both an issue of social justice and spatial justice.

This seminar explores how rural career guidance can be reimagined to incorporate a focus on social and spatial justice, drawing on conceptual literature, and empirical evidence from ongoing research in three rural communities in Denmark.

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