Youth, education and risk : facing the future by Dwyer, Peter, 1935-, Wyn, Johanna, 1952- instant download

Youth, education and risk : facing the future by Dwyer, Peter, 1935-, Wyn, Johanna, 1952- instant download

viii, 221 pages : 23 cm, Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future is a provocative and valuable insight into how the dramatic social and economic changes of the last twenty years have affected the lives of Western youth. Covering young people's attitudes towards relationships and health, the authors provide a comprehensive perspective on young people in Western society in the 1990s. The book reviews ten years of research, policy and practice as related to the 15-25 age group and compares data from the UK, Australia, the USA and Canada. It also argues for the need to develop new research and policy frameworks that are more in tune with the changed conditions of life for Western youth. The book sets out the conceptual basis for a new approach to youth and the practical implications for research, education and youth policy in the new millenium, Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-218) and index, 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