1st Edition

Choice, Pathways and Transitions Post-16 New Youth, New Economies in the Global City

By Stephen Ball, Sheila Macrae, Meg Maguire Copyright 2001
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Chapter 1 Landscapes of Choice – Horizons for Action; Chapter 2 The Research and the Young People: Working in the ‘Ruins’; Chapter 3 Making and Escaping Identity, Amma, Michael, Amma, Rena, Delisha; Chapter 4 At Risk of Social Exclusion, Debra, Ayesha; Chapter 5 Learning Fatigue, ‘Choice Biographies’ and Leisure, Aaron, Lucy, Anne; Chapter 6 In a Glass of Their Own; Chapter 7 Just ‘Ordinary’ Young Men, Luke, Jordan; Chapter 8 Lost in Time and Space? ‘Drafting’ a Life – ‘Just’ and ‘Not Yet’, Fiona, Jolene, Daryl, Warren; Chapter 9 Futures on ‘Hold’, Gabrielle, Gillian, Carlene, Mehalet; Chapter 10 Constructing New Futures in the ‘New Economies’?, Rees, Wayne; Chapter 11 Themes and Issues and ‘Overburdened Representations’;

Biography

Stephen J. Ball, Meg Maguire, Sheila Macrae

'The authors are to be congratualted on the impressive theoretical breadth of their reading, and in the impressive way that this diverse theorising is critically examined and used in relation to their data.' - Phil Hodkinson, British Journal of Educational Studies