B. Roberts’s scientific contributions

... The emergence of youth culture was centrally linked to the education system, especially the development of 'secondary education for all' and the 'massive extension of higher education' (Clarke et al., 1993, p. 20). This meant that young people were spending a large part of their youth 'in age-specific educational institutions' (Clarke et al., 1993) and that they became incorporated in what Coleman, in an American context, termed an 'adolescent society'. According to Coleman, the high school student 'is 'cut off' from the rest of society, forced inwards towards his own age-group […] and maintains only a few threads of connections with the outside adult society' (Coleman, 1961, p. 3, in Clarke et al., 1993. ...

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Countering academisation of VET through local collaboration: A situational analysis from Western Norway