Employability as Inclusive Entanglement in Relationalities: A Design in Sustainable Learning Environments

Abstract

Research currently, seems to have shifted from blaming the victim when it comes to understanding the reasons for youth and graduate unemployment. This study documents strategies to promote increased levels of employment among youth through recognising that the essentialist and unitary individual is a construction of a humanist theorisation. The design and implementation of the mentioned strategies seem to be effective as they are based on an understanding that the-taken-for-granted individual abilities, performances and so on are constructions in entangled relationalities. In promoting employability, focus should rather be on recognising the value of inclusivity in intervention strategies to attend to the sources of the problem through multidimensional and multi-layered approaches that go beyond human, social, psychological, identity and cultural capitals, among others. In short, all human faculties are not necessarily innate but a function of entangled relationalities.