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Youth, education and risk : facing the future

Author: Peter Dwyer; Johanna Wyn
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge/Falmer, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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