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Transitions from Education to Work And Non-Work in Saudi Arabia |
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PP: 17-31 |
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doi:10.18576/ijye/020103
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Author(s) |
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Talha H Fadaak,
Ken Roberts,
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Abstract |
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| Saudi Arabia rarely features in any field of English language youth studies. This is despite the availability of considerable official data in English language on young people’s education, employment, and links between them, routinely analysed by gender, province and nationality. However, this evidence has never been analysed using the ‘transition paradigm’ that has been developed and is now favoured in Western studies of youth education and employment. This paper reports a small-scale interview study among 23 Saudis all aged 25-35 which was designed to fill gaps and enable typical life stage transitions to be identified. The paper describes and justifies the research methods, sketches the Saudi context, then gives examples of the youth transitions that became normal during the latter decades of the 20th century. We then sketch the changed Saudi Arabia context of the 21st century, and give examples of ‘difficult transitions’ which, we suggest, will become more common. The paper continues with a discussion of how Saudi youth will respond to their new circumstances, concludes that the ‘transition paradigm’ can be applied and works well in an Arabic and Islamic context, and makes proposals for further research. |
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