103 lines
3.5 KiB
YAML
103 lines
3.5 KiB
YAML
|
abstract: 'The rate of young people (15-24 years) in Australia who are not engaged
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
in full-time education or employment remains consistently higher than
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
the national unemployment rate. Various Government, academic and
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
not-for-profit sectors in Australia are starting to recognise social
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
enterprise programs as a potential solution to the unemployment issue,
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
particularly for target groups such as disadvantaged youth. These
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
programs are operated in a real-life work environment where participants
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
can develop vocational and employability skills through experiential
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
learning as well as receive added support to identify and address
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
personal barriers to employment and education. Furthermore, output from
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
these programs provides benefits for the community. Social enterprise
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
programs are predominantly funded by Government and delivered by
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
not-for-profit agencies with a social mission. BoysTown is one such
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
organisation delivering social enterprise programs specifically for
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
disadvantaged young people. These young people have histories of
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
long-term unemployment and welfare support, limited work experience,
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
intergenerational unemployment and low levels of formal education. In a
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
mixed method study (Bartlett, Mafi \& Dalgleish, 2013; BoysTown Griffith
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
University, 2012) of the processes of BoysTown''s social enterprises and
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
the outcomes for its participants, the survey data from 542 participants
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
in these social enterprises indicated not only high rates of positive
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
employment and education achievements, but also significant improvements
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
in personal development areas such as functional literacy and numeracy,
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
communication, teamwork, self-esteem, substance abuse and antisocial
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
behaviour. The themes from semi-structured interviews with 40 of these
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
participants supported the results from these quantitative data. An
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
integral finding was that improvements in decision-making competence and
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
the belief in achievement of job, life and financial aspirations had
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
flow-on effects for young people''s achievement of employment and
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
education outcomes. These results can inform BoysTown and similar
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
agencies about current strengths and future possibilities in its social
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
enterprise programs.'
|
||
|
|
affiliation: 'Mafi, Salote, Griffith Univ, Nathan, Qld 4111, Australia.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Mafi, Salote, BoysTown, Brisbane, Qld, Australia.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Bartlett, Brendan, Australian Catholic Univ, Sydney, NSW 2059, Australia.'
|
||
|
|
author: Mafi, Salote and Bartlett, Brendan
|
||
|
|
author_list:
|
||
|
|
- family: Mafi
|
||
|
|
given: Salote
|
||
|
|
- family: Bartlett
|
||
|
|
given: Brendan
|
||
|
|
booktitle: '6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
(ICERI 2013)'
|
||
|
|
da: '2023-09-28'
|
||
|
|
editor: Chova, LG and Martinez, AL and Torres, IC
|
||
|
|
files: []
|
||
|
|
isbn: 978-84-616-3847-5
|
||
|
|
keywords: 'Social enterprise; youth; research project; aspirations;
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
decision-making; employment; education'
|
||
|
|
language: English
|
||
|
|
note: '6th International Conference on Education, Research and Innovation
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
(ICERI), Seville, SPAIN, NOV 18-20, 2013'
|
||
|
|
number-of-cited-references: '7'
|
||
|
|
pages: 575-581
|
||
|
|
papis_id: e94c8748167d5682fd53358fdd02e12e
|
||
|
|
ref: Mafi2013aspirationsdecisionm
|
||
|
|
times-cited: '0'
|
||
|
|
title: 'ASPIRATIONS AND DECISION-MAKING COMPETENCE IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF EMPLOYMENT
|
||
|
|
AND EDUCATION OUTCOMES: A STUDY OF BOYSTOWN''S SOCIAL ENTERPRISES FOR AUSTRALIAN
|
||
|
|
YOUTH'
|
||
|
|
type: Proceedings Paper
|
||
|
|
unique-id: WOS:000347240600084
|
||
|
|
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
|
||
|
|
usage-count-since-2013: '3'
|
||
|
|
web-of-science-categories: Education \& Educational Research
|
||
|
|
year: '2013'
|