Overview

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 policies for post-16 education disadvantage, marginalize and exclude young people rather than improve their life chances. The book draws together the major issues and attempts to suggest alternative ways forward for a more inclusive post-16 education and training system.

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Author:   Stephen Ball ,  Sheila Macrae ,  Meg Maguire
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge Falmer
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780750708616

ISBN 10:   0750708611
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   27 July 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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’;

Reviews

'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

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Stephen J. Ball, Meg Maguire, Sheila Macrae

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