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Young People and Parenting Obligations of the State

Implications for Higher Education in Australia

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Authors:
  1. Emma Colvin

    1. Centre for Law and Justice, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia

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  2. Elizabeth Knight

    1. Victoria University, Footscray, Australia

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  • Specifically addresses the barriers care-experienced young people face in seeking higher education
  • Explores systematic issues stemming from university marketing and constituent systems of education, welfare, and justice
  • Describes how policies might change to better support care-experienced young people

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This book explores how the increasing need for specific kinds of parental engagement impacts care-experienced young peoples' trajectories. Previous Australian studies have found that care-experienced young people demonstrate poorer outcomes in health, education, and the criminal justice system throughout their life course. However, this multi-layered case study is the first to specifically address barriers in obtaining higher education—an effective tool for social mobility. In particular, the authors unpack how university marketing relies on young people to have a parent who understands tertiary education transitions to help them navigate post-school pathways to careers or higher education, as well as how policies might fail to help students who do not have such a figure in their lives. The authors offer suggestions for policy change in Australia while providing a basis for global comparisons and recommendations for how care-experienced young people and their support networks can overcome present challenges.

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The Role of Parental Labour in Career Transitions: Introduction

    • Emma Colvin, Elizabeth Knight
    Pages 1-12

  3. Care Experience and Transitions to Higher Education: How Our Understanding of a Particular Cohort’s Experience Illuminates Wider Experiences of Disparity in Education

    • Emma Colvin, Elizabeth Knight
    Pages 13-33

  4. Parenting as a Part of the School Ecosystem

    • Emma Colvin, Elizabeth Knight
    Pages 35-60

  5. The Development of Career-Related Early Intentions in the Home

    • Emma Colvin, Elizabeth Knight
    Pages 61-87

  6. Parents’ Assumed Role in Higher Education Transition

    • Emma Colvin, Elizabeth Knight
    Pages 89-115

  7. Attenuated Youth: Support from Parents into Adulthood

    • Emma Colvin, Elizabeth Knight
    Pages 117-137

  8. The Responsibilisation of Parental Labour in Education Practice: A Framework for Analysis

    • Emma Colvin, Elizabeth Knight
    Pages 139-162

  9. Conclusion

    • Emma Colvin, Elizabeth Knight
    Pages 163-174

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 175-178
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Law and Justice, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia

    Emma Colvin

  • Victoria University, Footscray, Australia

    Elizabeth Knight

About the authors

Emma Colvin is Senior Lecturer in Law and Criminology in the Centre for Law and Justice at Charles Sturt University, Australia.


Elizabeth Knight is Senior Research Fellow at the Mitchell Institute at Victoria University and Senior Lecturer in Career Education at James Cook University, Australia.

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