Reconsidering Graduate Employability: Educational Pathways for Transitions to Work (REMPLOY)

Abstract / Presentazione del progetto:

Employability emphasizes the need for HE to orient towards work, professions, and manage transitions in evolving contexts. It’s a complex category related to acquiring skills to enter and remain in the labour market. It justifies the work orientation of study paths, lifelong learning skills, and facilitates self-directed learning processes. It plays a regulatory role in the interaction dynamics between stakeholders. HE paths (EQF 6,7,8) should meet and form the labour market to the shared definition of learning outcomes. The current labour market, affected by “destructive processes” (i.e. Covid, Automation), necessitates thinking about professional trajectories in terms of evolutionary transition. Distractions can increase dropout rates and NEET, leading to a negative work path experience.

Obiettivi del progetto

REMPLOY aims to build a new paradigm of knowledge on the concept of Employability and offers concrete answers to the system of Higher Education, in the current turbulent scenario. By framing the construct of employability within a broader discourse to rethink policies and practices of learning in HE, and involving many actors in a collaborative method, casting light on their experiences and outlooks and investigating the contextual conditions supporting transitions from HE to work, it is theoretically and methodologically groundbreaking. It redefines graduates’ employability within a systemic, critical and pedagogical framework, while listening to students’ voices as well as other stakeholders to identify the competencies that facilitate a positive, if not linear, transition.

Durata prevista del progetto:

•  10/2023 - 10/2025

Settori ERC di riferimento:

• SH3_11 Social aspects of teaching and learning, curriculum studies, education and educational policies;
• SH3_8 Social policies, welfare, work and employment;
• SH3_1 Social structure, social mobility, social innovation;

Responsabile / coordinatore scientifico:

• Vanna BOFFO / Full Professor (L. 240/10) / Università degli Studi di Firenze /  M-PED/01 / https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6502-2484

Collaboratori / gruppo di ricerca:

• Fabio TOGNI/ Associate Professor (L. 240/10)/ M-PED/01 / fabio.togni(AT)unifi.it
• Glenda GALEOTTI/ Researcher f.t. - f.t. (art.24 c.3-b L. 240/10)/ M-PED/01/ glenda.galeotti(AT)unifi.it