Playing the game or played by the game? Young drug users' educational trajectories
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Playing the game or played by the game? Young drug users' educational trajectories . / Järvinen, Margaretha; Ravn, Signe.
In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol. 39, No. 5, 04.07.2018, p. 669-682.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Playing the game or played by the game?
T2 - Young drug users' educational trajectories
AU - Järvinen, Margaretha
AU - Ravn, Signe
PY - 2018/7/4
Y1 - 2018/7/4
N2 - This article analyses the relationship between cannabis use andeducational trajectories among 42 young drug users, recruited ataddiction treatment centres in Denmark. Quantitative research showsregular cannabis use to be associated with poor school performanceand drop-out. However, these studies do not pay much attentionto differences between educational tracks or to the links betweenthe educational field and other fields. Drawing on a Bourdieusianframework we analyse the interviewees’ involvement in four differentfields: the academic field, the field of vocational schools, the labourmarket field and the artistic field. We contribute to the literatureon post-16 educational trajectories by showing how successful‘investments’ in education depend not only on available resources(capitals), but also on the ability to navigate in an increasingly complexeducational system. Furthermore, we show how regular cannabisplays into the ‘illusio’ of different fields, challenging the interviewees’playing of educational games.
AB - This article analyses the relationship between cannabis use andeducational trajectories among 42 young drug users, recruited ataddiction treatment centres in Denmark. Quantitative research showsregular cannabis use to be associated with poor school performanceand drop-out. However, these studies do not pay much attentionto differences between educational tracks or to the links betweenthe educational field and other fields. Drawing on a Bourdieusianframework we analyse the interviewees’ involvement in four differentfields: the academic field, the field of vocational schools, the labourmarket field and the artistic field. We contribute to the literatureon post-16 educational trajectories by showing how successful‘investments’ in education depend not only on available resources(capitals), but also on the ability to navigate in an increasingly complexeducational system. Furthermore, we show how regular cannabisplays into the ‘illusio’ of different fields, challenging the interviewees’playing of educational games.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - youth
KW - educational trajectories
KW - drugs
KW - Bourdiew
KW - qualitative methods
U2 - 10.1080/01425692.2017.1401917
DO - 10.1080/01425692.2017.1401917
M3 - Journal article
VL - 39
SP - 669
EP - 682
JO - British Journal of Sociology of Education
JF - British Journal of Sociology of Education
SN - 0142-5692
IS - 5
ER -
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