Action research for Socially vulnerable young people's transition from school to education or the labour market

The transition of socially disadvantaged young people from school to work or fully qualifying vocational education has constituted a societal problem for several years. The purpose of the article is to argue for the need to develop alternatives to the dominant arrangements of educational learning processes aimed at promoting the access of socially disadvantaged young people to fully qualifying programmes of further education, or a job. The article will discuss how action research can contribute to establishing experimental learning arrangements and activities. The article will discuss the importance of establishing future creating workshops, practical workshops and events which attempt to activate students’ life experiences and make these experiences the centre of their learning processes. We argue for the importance of organizing alternative social experiments in a cooperative venture involving socially vulnerable students, subject teachers and researchers, based on ideals of democracy and sustainability.