Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future

by Dwyer,Peter

• ISBN13: 9780415257787
• ISBN10: 0415257786
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-09-07
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Futureis 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. 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. Covering young people's attitudes towards relationships and health, the authors provide a comprehensive perspective on young people in Western society in the 1990s.

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures	vii
Introduction	1	(6)
PART I The context of change	7	(90)
Balancing options	9	(26)
The ambition paradox	13	(5)
Patterns of change	18	(7)
Priorities	25	(7)
The idea of transition to adulthood	32	(3)
Outside the mainstream	35	(22)
What alternatives?	39	(7)
Being an outsider	46	(5)
Policy disjunctures	51	(4)
Concluding remarks	55	(2)
The policy gap	57	(19)
Mainstream: the image of success	59	(4)
Masking outsiders	63	(3)
Training beyond the mainstream	66	(4)
Continuing inequalities	70	(4)
The policy gap	74	(2)
Coping with change	76	(21)
Elements of convergence	80	(3)
A perplexing optimism	83	(3)
Choice biographies	86	(3)
Participant research	89	(6)
Concluding comment	95	(2)
PART II Problems of transition	97	(98)
Student hopes and outcomes	99	(24)
Future prospects	100	(10)
The impact of change	110	(3)
The life-patterns project: 1991-6	113	(6)
Uncertain outcomes	119	(4)
The gender factor	123	(22)
Gender and work	124	(7)
Gender and education	131	(5)
Gender and identity	136	(7)
Conclusion	143	(2)
`At risk'	145	(24)
Whose problem?	146	(13)
Whose solution?	159	(7)
One-dimensional lives	166	(3)
Life-patterns and careers	169	(26)
Complex lives	175	(4)
Career choices	179	(5)
Rethinking careers	184	(3)
Choice or constraint?	187	(8)
Epilogue	195	(11)
Foreclosed options	195	(4)
Multi-dimensional lives	199	(2)
Active voice	201	(5)
References	206	(13)
Index	219