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Author:   Päivi Siivonen ,  Ulpukka Isopahkala-Bouret ,  Michael Tomlinson ,  Maija Korhonen
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
ISBN:  

9783031206559

ISBN 10:   303120655
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   14 June 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1. Introduction: Rethinking graduate employability in context.- PART 1.- 2.Graduate employability and its basis in possessive individualism.- 3. Relative employability: Applying the insights of positional competition and conflict theories within the current higher education landscape.- 4. Boosting employability through fostering an entrepreneurial mindset: Critical analysis of employability and entrepreneurship in EU policy documents.- 5. The affective life of neoliberal employability discourse.- 6. Grounding employability in both agency and collective identity: an emancipatory agenda for higher education.- PART 2 -  7.Are graduates working in graduate occupations? Insights from the Portuguese labour market.- 8. Institutionalisation of employability capitals in employment markets.- 9. The vocational drift of French higher education and the employability of graduates.-  10. Re-framing employability as a problem of perceived opportunities: The case of internships in a U.S. college using the Student Perceptions of Employment Opportunities (SPEO) framework.- 11. Working-Class Adult Students: Negotiating Inequalities in the Graduate Labour Market.- PART 3 - 12. Health as employability potential in business graduates' career imagination.- 13. Finnish university students constructing their ideal employable identities – a case study of Top Performing Experts.- 14. Strategies undertaken by international graduates to negotiate employability.- 15. Employability as self-branding in job search games: A case of Finnish business graduates.- 16. Negotiating (employable) graduate identity – Small story approach in qualitative follow-up research.- 17. Epilogue.

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Päivi Siivonen is Associate Professor in the Department of Education, University of Turku, Finland. Ulpukka Isopahkala-Bouret is Professor in the Department of Education, University of Turku, Finland. Michael Tomlinson is Professor in the Southampton Education School, University of Southampton, UK. Maija Korhonen is University Lecturer at the Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Eastern Finland. Nina Haltia is Senior Researcher in the Department of Education, University of Turku, Finland.

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