Developing career capabilities in “NEET” young people: experiences of participants in the Prince’s Trust team programme

Robertson, Peter J.

Abstract

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.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 26, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Feb 5, 2018
• Publication Date: Feb 5, 2018
• Deposit Date: Jan 29, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 16, 2019
• Journal: British Journal of Guidance and Counselling
• Print ISSN: 0306-9885
• Electronic ISSN: 1469-3534
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 752-764
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2018.1434130
• Keywords: Capability approach, young people, welfare-to-work policy, unemployed, employed,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1031916
• Contract Date: Jan 29, 2018