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Developing career capabilities in “NEET” young people: experiences of participants in the Prince’s Trust team programme
  This qualitative study focuses on the impact of a supportive 12-week programme intended to empower young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) to pursue life-career goals of their own choosing. The programme is viewed through the conceptual lens of the Capability Approach of Amartya Sen, an approach to social justice that stresses the power to make and implement lifestyle choices. Fourteen young people who attended the Prince's Trust team programme were interviewed. Their accounts of their experience of the programme were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Participants found the programme to be a positive confidence-building experience, and it enabled them to deploy their existing resources in pursuit of a personally meaningful goal.

  • Type:

    Article

  • Date:

    05 February 2018

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • DOI:

    10.1080/03069885.2018.1434130

  • Cross Ref:

    10.1080/03069885.2018.1434130

  • ISSN:

    0306-9885

  • Library of Congress:

    HD Industries. Land use. Labor

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    331 Labor economics

  • Funders:

    Edinburgh Napier Funded; The Richard Benjamin Trust

Citation

Robertson, P. J. (2018). Developing career capabilities in “NEET” young people: experiences of participants in the Prince’s Trust team programme. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 46(6), 752-764. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2018.1434130

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Keywords

Capability approach, young people, welfare-to-work policy, unemployed, employed,

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