Projects

The transition between school and working life for young people at risk

Team

Häfeli Kurt
Hofmann Claudia
Seewald Christina
Sempert-Niederegger Waltraud

Occupation and work continue to form central identity and integration factors for the individual and society, and this applies equally to disabled and disadvantaged persons. For this reason, the transition to working life – whether direct from school or through vocational training – plays an important role, but is, however, connected with considerable difficulties in the case of people with disabilities.
The keywords in this context are: inadequate preparation for the choice of profession, insufficient apprenticeships and educational training vacancies, inadequate vocational educational concepts, lack of transparency of the educational system, and insufficient opportunities for employment. Within the framework of the main issues of the research conducted by the University of Applied Sciences in Special Needs Education (Hochschule für Heilpägogik, HfH), both individual and systematic perspectives are investigated in various projects concentrated on:
 
1.       the careers of immediately affected young people and young adults.
2.       the support possibilities for the pupils and teachers and
3.       the effects of the educational system with a view to the new vocational
          education laws.

 

Contact: Prof. Dr. Kurt Häfeli, director R&D, HfH e-mail:
 

Publications
Häfeli, Kurt (2003). Übergang Schule – Erwerbsleben: Skizze eines HfH-Forschungsschwerpunktes. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Heilpädagogik (3), 18-24.
Häfeli, Kurt (2004). Berufliche Integration behinderter Jugendlicher - Anstösse aus der Alternsforschung. In A. Kummer & P. Walther-Müller (Eds.), Integration. S. 277-288. Luzern: Edition SZH/CSPS.
Häfeli, Kurt (2004). Transition: Forschungsperspektiven beim Übergang von der Schule ins Erwerbsleben bei Menschen mit Behinderungen. In S. Amft, K. Bernath & K. Häfeli (Hrsg.), Heilpädagogische Forschung im Aufwind. S. 131-146. Luzern: Edition SZH/CSPS.
Häfeli, Kurt (2005). Modularisierung in der Berufsausbildung: eine Chance für behinderte und benachteiligte Jugendliche? In K. Felkendorff & E. Lischer (Eds.), Barrierefreie Übergänge? S. 104-113. Zürich: Verlag Pestalozzianum.
Häfeli, Kurt (2005). Erschwerter Berufseinstieg für Jugendliche mit Behinderungen. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Heilpädagogik (3), 17-22.

 

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