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New learning, New Youth? Policy, Literacy, and the Subjects of Reform in Risk Society

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Education and the Risk Society

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Vocational education in the United States, now called Career and Technical Education (CTE), offers an option for youth in a climate increasingly focused upon particular versions of college-prep coursework as a condition for high school graduation. For those students with specific work interests or those who struggle to connect with conventional approaches to academic study, having the option to learn in a hands-on, career-focused environment often sustains a connection to school. It can represent a viable route towards graduation, labor market entry, and further education (DeLuca, Plank & Estacion, 2006). Yet CTE has long been embedded in secondary education as a low-status track, accorded less value than the college-prep track and frequently assigned to students as much as selected by them, historically based on gender, class, and ethnoracial biases.

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Albert, M. (2012). New learning, New Youth? Policy, Literacy, and the Subjects of Reform in Risk Society. In: Education and the Risk Society. Contexts of Education, vol 5. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-961-9_12

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