Sanna Aaltonen

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the ways in which institutional regulations, individual agency, and emotions are related in bringing about such significant transitions that take place outside the traditional transitional points and before the endpoint of compulsory education.

TL;DR: This article examined the subjective orientations to schools and schooling expressed by young people on the margins of school by adopting a biographical approach to young people's lives, examining how ninth graders make sense of their educational career from a particular transitional vantage point between compulsory and post-compulsory education, and from a marginal position in the current educational context.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an analysis of young people's orientations to the future in the context of intergenerational relations and show that the ingredients with which young people concoct their futures are in many ways grounded in their families' attempts to provide the most favourable support they can manage within the structural constraints and on the basis of the affordances that are available to them, but largely regardless of their class background.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on micro-ethical issues concerning interactions in which the process of informed consent occurs and highlight the power relations between adult researcher and young research participant, the contextual nature of gaining informed consent, and the conflict involved in trying to avoid hounding an over-surveilled group while still tracking their whereabouts and revisiting them for a follow-up interview.