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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Dwyer; Johanna Wyn |
| ISBN: | 0415257786 9780415257787 0415257778 9780415257770 9780203018712 0203018710 |
| OCLC Number: | 48370139 |
| Description: | viii, 221 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | The context of change -- 1. Balancing options -- The ambition paradox -- Patterns of change -- Priorities -- The idea of transition to adulthood -- 2. Outside the mainstream -- What alternatives? -- Being an outsider -- Policy disjunctures -- 3. The policy gap -- Mainstream: the image of success -- Masking outsiders -- Training beyond the mainstream -- Continuing inequalities -- The policy gap -- 4. Coping with change -- Elements of convergence -- A perplexing optimism -- Choice biographies -- Participant research -- Problems of transition -- 5. Student hopes and outcomes -- Future prospects -- The impact of change -- The life-patterns project:1991-6 -- Uncertain outcomes -- 6. The gender factor -- Gender and work -- Gender and education -- Gender and identity -- 7. At risk -- Whose problem? -- Whose solution? -- One-dimensional lives -- 8. Life-patterns and careers -- Complex lives -- Career choices -- Rethinking careers -- Choice or constraint? -- Foreclosed options -- Multi-dimensional lives -- Active voice. |
| Responsibility: | Peter Dwyer and Johanna Wyn. |
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