Geographical dimensions of imagined futures: post school participation in education and work in peri-urban and regional Australia Webb, Susan, Black, Rosalyn, Plowright, Susan, Morton, Ruth and Roy, Reshmi 2014, Geographical dimensions of imagined futures: post school participation in education and work in peri-urban and regional Australia, in Refereed proceedings, annual meeting of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association, Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association, Crows Nest, N.S.W., pp. 1-20. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads webb-geographicaldimensions-post-2014.pdf Author's post print application/pdf 280.33KB 181 Title Geographical dimensions of imagined futures: post school participation in education and work in peri-urban and regional Australia Author(s) Webb, Susan Black, Rosalyn orcid.org/0000-0001-5427-0565 Plowright, Susan Morton, Ruth Roy, Reshmi orcid.org/0000-0002-1175-5041 Conference name Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association Annual Conference Conference location Cairns Conference dates 2014/04/22 - 2014/04/24 Title of proceedings Refereed proceedings, annual meeting of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association Publication date 2014 Start page 1 End page 20 Total pages 20 Publisher Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association Place of publication Crows Nest, N.S.W. Summary This paper discusses preliminary findings from a sub-set of empirical data collected for a recent NCVER study that explored the geographic dimensions of social exclusion in four locations in Victoria and South Australia with lower than average post school education participation. Set against the policy context of the Bradley Review (2008) and the drive to increase the post-school participation of young people from low socio-economic status neighbourhoods, this qualitative research study, responding to identified gaps in the literature, sought a nuanced understanding of how young people make decisions about their post-school pathways. Drawing on Appadurai’s (2004) concept ‘horizons of aspiration’ the paper explores the aspirations of two young people formed from, and within, their particular rural ‘neighborhoods’. The paper reveals how their post-school education and work choices, imagined futures and conceptions of a ‘good life’, have topographic and gendered influences that are important considerations for policy makers. Language eng Field of Research 130103 Higher Education 130108 Technical, Further and Workplace Education Socio Economic Objective 939903 Equity and Access to Education HERDC Research category E1.1 Full written paper - refereed ERA Research output type E Conference publication Copyright notice ©2014, Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30074854 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Education Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 05 Aug 2015, 10:25:49 EST Thu, 06 Aug 2015, 05:00:17 EST Thu, 06 Aug 2015, 08:21:15 EST Fri, 07 Aug 2015, 06:10:04 EST Wed, 07 Oct 2015, 10:27:49 EST Wed, 07 Oct 2015, 10:35:50 EST Wed, 23 Mar 2016, 10:18:41 EST Wed, 06 Dec 2017, 06:16:00 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 17:36:21 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 561 Abstract Views, 182 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 05 Aug 2015, 10:25:49 EST