Time, dwelling and educational disadvantage. Evidence from vocational education students in Italy, France and Greece

This paper argues that the consideration of educational disadvantage should go beyond the micro-scale contextual level of individual students, and explore eventual connections with hybrid forms of disadvantage in the social field. The paper draws on the capability approach and the concept of dwellin...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Konidari Victoria
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2021-01-01
Series:Education Inquiry
Subjects:
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20004508.2020.1784531
_version_ 1818614084381179904
author Konidari Victoria
author_facet Konidari Victoria
author_sort Konidari Victoria
collection DOAJ
description This paper argues that the consideration of educational disadvantage should go beyond the micro-scale contextual level of individual students, and explore eventual connections with hybrid forms of disadvantage in the social field. The paper draws on the capability approach and the concept of dwelling to introduce dwelling in time as functioning. This refers to students’ abilities to position themselves in an engaging and meaningful relationship within time, and depends on students first achieving the previous functioning of dwelling. Research results from 222 14–15 year-old vocational education students from Italy, France and Greece using the Future Time Perspective Scale for Adolescents and Young Adults (FTPS-AYA), revealed four main findings: a measurement error in four factors of the scale, an almost systematic lack of correlation of the future-planning factor with the other factors, a significant percentage of students who do not have a clear position on the future and an invisible correlation between the future-positive and future-negative factors and students’ opportunities to choose their specialisations. The paper argues that these four findings should not be seen in isolation and concludes that widening the spectrum of the origins of educational disadvantage facilitates both more effective education policy making and localising conversion factors that can boost students’ resilience.
first_indexed 2024-12-16T16:12:23Z
format Article
id doaj.art-a0c5a40f1d414cd39a332f9988f54193
institution Directory Open Access Journal
issn 2000-4508
language English
last_indexed 2024-12-16T16:12:23Z
publishDate 2021-01-01
publisher Taylor & Francis Group
record_format Article
series Education Inquiry
spelling doaj.art-a0c5a40f1d414cd39a332f9988f541932022-12-21T22:25:11ZengTaylor & Francis GroupEducation Inquiry2000-45082021-01-011219411010.1080/20004508.2020.17845311784531Time, dwelling and educational disadvantage. Evidence from vocational education students in Italy, France and GreeceKonidari Victoria0University of PatrasThis paper argues that the consideration of educational disadvantage should go beyond the micro-scale contextual level of individual students, and explore eventual connections with hybrid forms of disadvantage in the social field. The paper draws on the capability approach and the concept of dwelling to introduce dwelling in time as functioning. This refers to students’ abilities to position themselves in an engaging and meaningful relationship within time, and depends on students first achieving the previous functioning of dwelling. Research results from 222 14–15 year-old vocational education students from Italy, France and Greece using the Future Time Perspective Scale for Adolescents and Young Adults (FTPS-AYA), revealed four main findings: a measurement error in four factors of the scale, an almost systematic lack of correlation of the future-planning factor with the other factors, a significant percentage of students who do not have a clear position on the future and an invisible correlation between the future-positive and future-negative factors and students’ opportunities to choose their specialisations. The paper argues that these four findings should not be seen in isolation and concludes that widening the spectrum of the origins of educational disadvantage facilitates both more effective education policy making and localising conversion factors that can boost students’ resilience.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20004508.2020.1784531timedwellingeducational disadvantagecapability approachresiliencevocational education
spellingShingle Konidari Victoria
Time, dwelling and educational disadvantage. Evidence from vocational education students in Italy, France and Greece
Education Inquiry
time
dwelling
educational disadvantage
capability approach
resilience
vocational education
title Time, dwelling and educational disadvantage. Evidence from vocational education students in Italy, France and Greece
title_full Time, dwelling and educational disadvantage. Evidence from vocational education students in Italy, France and Greece
title_fullStr Time, dwelling and educational disadvantage. Evidence from vocational education students in Italy, France and Greece
title_full_unstemmed Time, dwelling and educational disadvantage. Evidence from vocational education students in Italy, France and Greece
title_short Time, dwelling and educational disadvantage. Evidence from vocational education students in Italy, France and Greece
title_sort time dwelling and educational disadvantage evidence from vocational education students in italy france and greece
topic time
dwelling
educational disadvantage
capability approach
resilience
vocational education
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20004508.2020.1784531
work_keys_str_mv AT konidarivictoria timedwellingandeducationaldisadvantageevidencefromvocationaleducationstudentsinitalyfranceandgreece