ISBN:
9780750708616
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (209 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Choice, Pathways and Transitions Post-16 : New Youth, New Economies in the Global City
DDC:
305.235/09421
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This internationally appealing book is based on a two-year case study of a group of young people as they move through their final year of mandatory schooling and into their first year of post-16 experience. It looks at their choices, the market behaviour of local education and training providers and those who help and advise these choices. The authors show that recent and current political policies for post-16 education disadvantage, marginalise and exclude young people rather than improve their life chances. The book draws together the major issues and attempts to suggest alternative ways for
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Table; Series Editor's Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Landscapes of Choice -Horizons for Action; 2 The Research and the YoungPeople: Working in the 'Ruins5; 3 Making and Escaping IdentityAmma and Michael, Rena and Delisha; 4 At Risk of Social ExclusionDebra and Ayesha; 5 Learning Fatigue, 'ChoiceBiographies9 and LeisureAaron, Lucy and Anne; 6 In a Glass of Their OwnClassifying and Classified -Identity and the Science ofInfinite Distinctions; 7 Just 'Ordinary' Young MenLuke and Jordan
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Lost in Time and Space?'Drafting' a Life - 'Just'and 'Not Yet'Fiona and Jolene, Daryl and Warren9 Futures on 'Hold5Gabrielle, Gillian, Carlene and Mehalet; 10 Constructing New Futures inthe 'New Economies5?Rees and Wayne; 11 Themes and Issues and'Overburdened Representations9; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; References; Author Index; Subject Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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