ISBN:
1403933685
,
9781403933683
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 208 p)
,
ill
,
23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Young People in Transition : Becoming Citizens?
DDC:
305.235/094
Keywords:
Youth Social conditions
;
Young adults Social conditions
;
Social participation
;
School-to-work transition
;
Citizenship Social aspects
Abstract:
The essays in this collection represent a major contribution to our understanding of youth and transitions to key areas of adult citizenship, including employment, independent living arrangements and political participation. The education of children and young people in 'citizenship' usually emphasizes either rights or responsibilities, through the concept of 'active citizenship'. The central concern of the book is to address the tensions and contradictions between the teaching of active citizenship and the real life difficulties many young people face in the practical transition to being adul
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Notes on the Contributors; 1 Young People in Transition: Becoming Citizens? An Introduction; 2 Complex Transitions: Linearity and Labour Market Integration in the West of Scotland; 3 Learning for Life? The Postwar Experience of Apprenticeship; 4 Girls' Transitions to Work and Adulthood in the 1960s; 5 Fashioning Flexibility: Dissolving Boundaries between Employment, Education and the Family among A-level Students Engaged in Full-time Schooling and Part-time Jobs; 6 Leaving the Home in Comparative Perspective: Negotiating Processes and Meanings
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Youth Unemployment and Social Exclusion8 Citizenship Education: The French and English Experience; 9 Young People as 'Active Citizens': Towards an Inclusionary View of Citizenship and Constructive Social Participation; 10 Engaged Cynics? Young People's Involvement in Politics and Decision-making in the UK; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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