J Wyn
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 51998 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J Wyn |
| NOMBRES | J |
| APELLIDO | Wyn |
| FIRMA | WYN J |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0669-5432 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 669 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Longitudinal Methods in Youth Research
Handbook of Children and Youth Studies
We are excited to present the second edition of the Springer Handbook on Children and Youth Studies featuring several new sections and updated chapters to offer an even more comprehensive introduction to the evolving fields of childhood and youth studies.Sections on Thinking About Children and Youth
Dynamics of belonging amid geographical immobility
Our analysis of young people who have stayed in rural communities contributes to a 'relational turn' in youth studies that rejects substantialist approaches to make visible the range of relationships beyond simply educational qualifications and employment that inform youth life projects. This relational turn recognises that 'youth' is a product of classificatory struggles that become routinised into taken for granted concepts. Our analysis challe…
Liminality, Covid ‐19 and the long crisis of young adults' employment
The COVID‐19 crisis has brought into sharp relief the precarious employment situation of young people, precipitating a raft of academic and public claims of an unprecedented crisis that has disrupted young lives. Our study contributes to research on youth labour and transitions with new longitudinal empirical analysis. Our analysis challenges the “newness” of the precarity highlighted by COVID‐19, focussing on employment. It draws on longitudinal…
Young People’s Mental Health
In modern education, there is a significant increase in the use of digital innovations to enhance students’ Computational Thinking (CT) disposition. However, the integration of CT into educational curricula often faces various challenges. This study examines the eff ects of integrating CT through a mobile application on students’ CT disposition. Using a quasi-experimental design, the research involved 60 students divided into two groups: the trea…
Thinking about Belonging in Youth Studies
Rethinking Youth
Young people grow up in varied circumstances with different priorities and perspectives. While youth does not exist as a single group we need to understand what is happening in young people's lives. Rethinking Youth challenges the conventional wisdoms surrounding the position and opportunities of young people today and provides a systematic overview of the major perspectives in youth studies.The authors demonstrate how the concept of youth involv…
Youth and the New Adulthood
A sociology of youth
The New Adulthood and the Future of Youth Studies
In this article, Johanna Wyn discusses her pivotal contributions to youth studies, in conversation with Dan Woodman. Professor Wyn’s key ideas are introduced: the critique of futurity in youth studies, the rise of a new adulthood , social generation , the limitations of a transitions framework, and belonging for young people. These conceptual contributions are discussed in relation to understanding patterns of inequality among young people and th…
Young adulthood in uncertain times
Young adults in Australia, and in many other advanced countries, are more likely to be highly educated but less likely to be in full-time employment than their parents were. Although insecure employment has long been a feature of labour markets, increased labour flexibility in recent decades has resulted in insecure employment becoming entrenched. In this article, we draw on data from young people in their early twenties to examine the interrelat…
Chasing rainbows
The increasingly complex relationship between educational qualifications and employment is an integral, yet little-explored dimension of the labour market developments that have come to be referred to as the 'gig economy'. This article explores the changing meaning and relevance of education through an analysis of young people's employment outcomes in terms of employment status, having a job in their field of study and job satisfaction. It shows …
A Longitudinal Analysis of Belonging
This article looks at how young people construct belonging over time in rural places in Australia. It draws on the intersecting ideas of theorists and youth researchers whose work supports the view that in order to understand young people’s lives, we need to seek a thicker, richer conception of the interplay among identity, place, mobility and performativity. We illustrate our argument using data from a two-decade longitudinal study of young Aust…
Gendered transitions from education to work
This article addresses the paradox that, despite achieving educational participation exceeding their male peers, young women see fewer returns for this investment in the labour market. We argue that this paradox is obscured by youth transitions frameworks that assume a close, linear relationship between education and work. We draw on Bourdieu's concept of field to highlight the distinctive logics (particularly the 'time economy') that shape diffe…
The Complex Relationship between Mental Health and Social Conditions in the Lives of Young Australians Mixing Work and Study
Poor mental health in youth has been consistently shown to be rising over the past 20 years. While it is well established that mental health status is associated with social conditions, population-level perspectives make it difficult to identify the complex ways social and structural conditions impact on mental health. Based on longitudinal (mixed method) data, this exploratory longitudinal study aims to study how the life circumstances of educat…
An unspoken crisis
It is common for organizations such as the International Labour Organization and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development to acknowledge that the links between education and work are far from smooth, creating a ‘crisis’ for youth. This includes increasing rates of unemployment, under-employment and precarious work. In Australia, the federal government response to this crisis for youth has been to suggest the end to an ‘Age of Ent…
Handbook of Children and Youth Studies
Youth and Generation
A thought provoking and engaging exploration of contemporary youth studuies, with a focus on change and inequality in young lives in the emerging Asian century
Handbook of Children and Youth Studies
Class, gender and generation matter
This article highlights how concepts from the sociology of generations can facilitate new understandings of the processes by which social inequalities are made and perpetuated in the lives of young people. There is a tendency in some youth research for inequality to be conceptualised too simplistically, as a process of reproduction that remains stable over time. Hence, continuing inequality is weighed as evidence against theories proposing social…
New girlhood and lost boys
The ‘coming of age’ films Bend it like Beckham, Whale Rider and Harry Potter feature distinctive narratives about girlhood and boyhood that provide a perspective on the changing historical and political context of gendered identity construction in the new millennium. The early 2000s represented a particular moment in thinking about the possibilities, risks and threats of gender relations in Western countries. This was overwhelmingly represented b…
Reflections on the use of spatial and relational metaphors in youth studies
This article makes a contribution to ongoing debate with youth studies about the frameworks and concepts that inform research and practice. It offers an analysis of the spatial metaphor of transition and the emerging relational metaphor of belonging. Noting that metaphor is an essential tool of theory, and that all theories illuminate particular elements of life and obscure others, it argues that there are elements of the transitions metaphor tha…
Youth Policy and Generations
There is an emerging consensus that new approaches are needed to take account of the impact of social conditions on young people's lives. We argue that an approach informed by the sociology of generations can highlight the interrelationships between changing social context and life patterns. This approach enables policies that aim to enhance the social inclusion of youth at risk to recognise the intersections between individual and social transit…
The making of a generation
This paper reaches into a comprehensive study of a generation of young people in Australia, drawing on a comparison with Canadian longitudinal data. It argues that this is a generation of reluctant change makers who have created new ways of living as a response to economic changes and government policies. These new ways of living, once exposed, ‘speak back’ to neoliberal policies, exposing their human costs. Australians found it more difficult th…
Beyond the 'transitions' metaphor
Against the backdrop of an emerging literature about significant change in family formation in late modernity, this article argues that youth studies over the last 20 years has tended to ignore the significance of family relationships to young people. It critiques the traditional youth-as-transition metaphor that dominates youth sociology, arguing that the assumptions of linear trajectories and of independence obscure the changing nature of famil…
Generation, Youth and Social Change in Australia
This article takes recent critiques of the conceptualisation of 'youth as transition' and explores the extent to which 'generation' offers a more effective way of conceptualising youth. There is an identifiable convergence of evidence for a 'post-1970' generation who have shaped a 'new adulthood'. Yet current approaches inevitably identify education, work and family patterns of young people's lives as evidence of their faulty, failed transitions,…
Beyond apathetic or activist youth
This article addresses the changing nature of participation for young people. Our analysis is framed by the fragmentation of traditional institutions and the increasingly unpredictable nature of life trajectories. As a result, the identification of a crisis in young people’s engagement has become a recurrent theme in the literature, alongside a burgeoning interest in new forms of (sub)cultural participatory practices. We argue that there is furth…
Reflections on the use of spatial and relational metaphors in youth studies
This article makes a contribution to ongoing debate with youth studies about the frameworks and concepts that inform research and practice. It offers an analysis of the spatial metaphor of transition and the emerging relational metaphor of belonging. Noting that metaphor is an essential tool of theory, and that all theories illuminate particular elements of life and obscure others, it argues that there are elements of the transitions metaphor tha…
Young People's Politics and the Micro-Territories of the Local
In spite of the late modern interpellation of youth as mobile and globally oriented, and a perception of social and political issues as increasingly playing out in a transnational arena, young Australians exhibit strong local and individualised tendencies in expressing politics. They are bounded by the 'micro-territories of the local'; that is, their political thinking and acting takes place within the spaces of home, friendship groups, school an…
Changing times, changing perspectives
This article explores the changing relationship between the 'transitions' and 'cultural' perspectives in youth studies. Changes in the relationship between the two approaches are currently being driven by shifting theoretical paradigms that place a greater weight on reflexive life management, thereby making it more difficult to maintain a theoretical distinction between structural and cultural analysis. Indeed, we argue that relationships between…
A Longitudinal Analysis of Belonging
This article looks at how young people construct belonging over time in rural places in Australia. It draws on the intersecting ideas of theorists and youth researchers whose work supports the view that in order to understand young people’s lives, we need to seek a thicker, richer conception of the interplay among identity, place, mobility and performativity. We illustrate our argument using data from a two-decade longitudinal study of young Aust…
New Directions in Research on Youth in Transition
New directions in research on youth transitions are examined, with particular reference to the research findings of recent studies from different countries. The convergence of evidence in the studies points to a significant shift of emphasis for the study of youth transitions and the need for a more interactive research process that enables the participants to articulate their own meanings and experiences. One limitation of the studies is that th…
Beyond the 'transitions' metaphor
Against the backdrop of an emerging literature about significant change in family formation in late modernity, this article argues that youth studies over the last 20 years has tended to ignore the significance of family relationships to young people. It critiques the traditional youth-as-transition metaphor that dominates youth sociology, arguing that the assumptions of linear trajectories and of independence obscure the changing nature of famil…
Class, gender and generation matter
This article highlights how concepts from the sociology of generations can facilitate new understandings of the processes by which social inequalities are made and perpetuated in the lives of young people. There is a tendency in some youth research for inequality to be conceptualised too simplistically, as a process of reproduction that remains stable over time. Hence, continuing inequality is weighed as evidence against theories proposing social…
Making a Difference
This article reports a study of Australian and Canadian women in management positions in university faculties of education. It provides a perspective on the contradictory and multilayered experiences of the first cohort of academic women to reach management positions in any significant numbers in education. The article explores the way in which women are positioned as different but at the same time negotiate their place by using marginality and d…
Negotiating Social Change
This article explores paradoxical elements in the relationship between youth and society. It argues that researchers need to take account of both the distinctive circumstances of the post-1970 generation and the new approaches they are developing to make a life. It argues that questions about how social structures and social divisions affect young people's life patterns need to recognize the ways in which young people themselves are responding to…
Youth agency and social context
This paper draws on ideas and research in youth studies in order to compare and con trast three approaches to the notion of social agency. The paper charts how youth stud ies commentators have generally relied upon either a 'deterministic' or a 'voluntaristic' conception of social action in explaining the life worlds of young people. It is argued that a 'contextual' understanding of youth experience provides a better appreciation of how youth age…
Gendered transitions from education to work
This article addresses the paradox that, despite achieving educational participation exceeding their male peers, young women see fewer returns for this investment in the labour market. We argue that this paradox is obscured by youth transitions frameworks that assume a close, linear relationship between education and work. We draw on Bourdieu's concept of field to highlight the distinctive logics (particularly the 'time economy') that shape diffe…
Youth Research in Australia and New Zealand
This article draws selectively on youth research in Australia and New Zealand to illustrate the distinctive nature of this emerging field. It reveals a vibrant, interdisciplinary field, which has developed rapidly from its derivative beginnings in the post-war period to a significant and distinctive field that is challenging theoretical and methodological traditions and providing new approaches to understanding youth, society and social change. T…
An unspoken crisis
It is common for organizations such as the International Labour Organization and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development to acknowledge that the links between education and work are far from smooth, creating a ‘crisis’ for youth. This includes increasing rates of unemployment, under-employment and precarious work. In Australia, the federal government response to this crisis for youth has been to suggest the end to an ‘Age of Ent…
Researching Youth in a Context of Social Change
In our article ‘Generation, Youth and Social Change in Australia’ (Wyn & Woodman 2006), we set out a rationale for considering the issue of young people and social change through the lens of ‘socia
Gendered embodiment and survival for young people with cystic fibrosis
Youth Policy and Generations
There is an emerging consensus that new approaches are needed to take account of the impact of social conditions on young people's lives. We argue that an approach informed by the sociology of generations can highlight the interrelationships between changing social context and life patterns. This approach enables policies that aim to enhance the social inclusion of youth at risk to recognise the intersections between individual and social transit…
Young People, Social Problems and Australian Youth Studies
Several major theoretical issues which have emerged in Australian youth studies in recent years are identified. Broad conceptual developments in youth studies are discussed, and an overview of the main analytical issues associated with doing youth research in the Australian context is provided. More specifically, the ways in which assumptions relating to youth agency and social structure influence how youth issues are constructed are examined. Th…
Constructing identities and making careers
This article argues that ‘transition’ offers a limited and outmoded conceptual frame for understanding young people’s engagement with work and learning. It draws on two studies of young people to provide insights into the study and work experiences of older and school‐aged youth. Our analysis suggests that rather than focussing narrowly on outcomes alone, transition should be seen as a process of identity development. Research on young people’s p…
New Patterns of Youth Transition in Education
Current research provides evidence that new relationships are being forged between youth people and education. Increased participation in post-compulsory education, combinations of work and study and uncertain career outcomes havebecome common experiences. There is an emerging disparity between the stated goals of education and the changing priorities and choices of young people. In particular, the linear notion of transitions, expressed in the m…
Post‐compulsory education policy in Australia and its impact on participant pathways and outcomes in the 1990s
The substantial redefinition of youth and education policy in Australia over the past decade has been associated with an increased emphasis on university entrance and the adoption of a sequential model of pathways between the two worlds of study and work. Because these new policy settings have been in operation for sufficient time now to warrant examination of their effectiveness in terms of participant outcomes, this article examines them in the…
Liminality, Covid ‐19 and the long crisis of young adults' employment
The COVID‐19 crisis has brought into sharp relief the precarious employment situation of young people, precipitating a raft of academic and public claims of an unprecedented crisis that has disrupted young lives. Our study contributes to research on youth labour and transitions with new longitudinal empirical analysis. Our analysis challenges the “newness” of the precarity highlighted by COVID‐19, focussing on employment. It draws on longitudinal…
Dynamics of belonging amid geographical immobility
Our analysis of young people who have stayed in rural communities contributes to a 'relational turn' in youth studies that rejects substantialist approaches to make visible the range of relationships beyond simply educational qualifications and employment that inform youth life projects. This relational turn recognises that 'youth' is a product of classificatory struggles that become routinised into taken for granted concepts. Our analysis challe…
Generation and Class
Livelihood and Social Division
The struggle for livelihood has always been of central concern to working class people. In Australia today the concentration of unemployment raises issues which must be seen as part of an historical process, involving the reconstruction of social division and the struggle for the right to subsistence. These issues are examined in this article, with particular attention to the social and economic changes which have produced this threat to liveliho…
Safe from attention
Health Care for Young Women in the Country
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJohanna WynJohanna Wyn is Director of the Youth Research Centre, at the Institute of Education, the University of Melbourne. The project was funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health, Housing and Community Services
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Early school leaving in Australia
The new agenda for education and training in Australia which has emerged during the 1990s aims to increase the participation of young people in post‐compulsory education and training. The policies are driven by an assumption that Australia's micro‐economic reform requires a workforce which has been equipped by the education system with specific skills for employment. However, within this policy development, little consideration has been given to …
Rethinking Youth
Young People, Social Problems and Australian Youth Studies
Several major theoretical issues which have emerged in Australian youth studies in recent years are identified. Broad conceptual developments in youth studies are discussed, and an overview of the main analytical issues associated with doing youth research in the Australian context is provided. More specifically, the ways in which assumptions relating to youth agency and social structure influence how youth issues are constructed are examined. Th…
Post‐compulsory education policy in Australia and its impact on participant pathways and outcomes in the 1990s
The substantial redefinition of youth and education policy in Australia over the past decade has been associated with an increased emphasis on university entrance and the adoption of a sequential model of pathways between the two worlds of study and work. Because these new policy settings have been in operation for sufficient time now to warrant examination of their effectiveness in terms of participant outcomes, this article examines them in the…
Youth agency and social context
This paper draws on ideas and research in youth studies in order to compare and con trast three approaches to the notion of social agency. The paper charts how youth stud ies commentators have generally relied upon either a 'deterministic' or a 'voluntaristic' conception of social action in explaining the life worlds of young people. It is argued that a 'contextual' understanding of youth experience provides a better appreciation of how youth age…
New Directions in Research on Youth in Transition
New directions in research on youth transitions are examined, with particular reference to the research findings of recent studies from different countries. The convergence of evidence in the studies points to a significant shift of emphasis for the study of youth transitions and the need for a more interactive research process that enables the participants to articulate their own meanings and experiences. One limitation of the studies is that th…
Making a Difference
This article reports a study of Australian and Canadian women in management positions in university faculties of education. It provides a perspective on the contradictory and multilayered experiences of the first cohort of academic women to reach management positions in any significant numbers in education. The article explores the way in which women are positioned as different but at the same time negotiate their place by using marginality and d…
New Patterns of Youth Transition in Education
Current research provides evidence that new relationships are being forged between youth people and education. Increased participation in post-compulsory education, combinations of work and study and uncertain career outcomes havebecome common experiences. There is an emerging disparity between the stated goals of education and the changing priorities and choices of young people. In particular, the linear notion of transitions, expressed in the m…
Negotiating Social Change
This article explores paradoxical elements in the relationship between youth and society. It argues that researchers need to take account of both the distinctive circumstances of the post-1970 generation and the new approaches they are developing to make a life. It argues that questions about how social structures and social divisions affect young people's life patterns need to recognize the ways in which young people themselves are responding to…
Gendered embodiment and survival for young people with cystic fibrosis
Youth, Education and Risk
Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future provides a provocative and valuable insight into how the dramatic social and economic changes of the last twenty years have affected the lives of Western youth. Covering young people's attitudes towards relationships and health, the authors provide a comprehensive perspective on young people in Western society in the 1990s.The book reviews ten years of research, policy and practice as related to the 15…
Youth and society
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Youth Research in Australia and New Zealand
This article draws selectively on youth research in Australia and New Zealand to illustrate the distinctive nature of this emerging field. It reveals a vibrant, interdisciplinary field, which has developed rapidly from its derivative beginnings in the post-war period to a significant and distinctive field that is challenging theoretical and methodological traditions and providing new approaches to understanding youth, society and social change. T…
Generation, Youth and Social Change in Australia
This article takes recent critiques of the conceptualisation of 'youth as transition' and explores the extent to which 'generation' offers a more effective way of conceptualising youth. There is an identifiable convergence of evidence for a 'post-1970' generation who have shaped a 'new adulthood'. Yet current approaches inevitably identify education, work and family patterns of young people's lives as evidence of their faulty, failed transitions,…
Researching Youth in a Context of Social Change
In our article ‘Generation, Youth and Social Change in Australia’ (Wyn & Woodman 2006), we set out a rationale for considering the issue of young people and social change through the lens of ‘socia
Generation and Class
Constructing identities and making careers
This article argues that ‘transition’ offers a limited and outmoded conceptual frame for understanding young people’s engagement with work and learning. It draws on two studies of young people to provide insights into the study and work experiences of older and school‐aged youth. Our analysis suggests that rather than focussing narrowly on outcomes alone, transition should be seen as a process of identity development. Research on young people’s p…
Young People's Politics and the Micro-Territories of the Local
In spite of the late modern interpellation of youth as mobile and globally oriented, and a perception of social and political issues as increasingly playing out in a transnational arena, young Australians exhibit strong local and individualised tendencies in expressing politics. They are bounded by the 'micro-territories of the local'; that is, their political thinking and acting takes place within the spaces of home, friendship groups, school an…
Global Connections
As a result of globalisation and changing technologies, young people are increasingly required to engage with the broader world beyond their local and national communities. This raises significant questions about the ways and spaces in which young people will need to engage as active citizens, and the new tools and resources that young people will need to equip them for their futures. The Global Connections Program has been developed to address t…
The Making of a Generation
Drawing on studies that have recorded the lives of young people in two countries for over fifteen years, The Making of a Generation offers unique insight into the hopes, dreams, and trajectories of a generation
Beyond apathetic or activist youth
This article addresses the changing nature of participation for young people. Our analysis is framed by the fragmentation of traditional institutions and the increasingly unpredictable nature of life trajectories. As a result, the identification of a crisis in young people’s engagement has become a recurrent theme in the literature, alongside a burgeoning interest in new forms of (sub)cultural participatory practices. We argue that there is furth…
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