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On their own? : making the transition from school to work in the information age /

Using a sample of 324 young adults in four urban centres who left high school in the mid-1980s as well as interviews with representative parents, former teachers, and employers, the authors identify factors that ease transition from school to. These include level of education, social class, gender,...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Crysdale, Stewart
Autres auteurs: King, Alan J. C., 1933-, Mandell, Nancy
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1999.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Along the Way: Emerging Experiences
  • 3. Family's Heritage: Class, Gender, and Ethnicity
  • 4. Education and Transition: The Salience of Learning
  • 5. Cooperative Education: A Bridging Program
  • 6. Employers and Transition
  • 7. Value Consonance and Transition
  • 8. Testing the Model: Transition as a Cumulative Process
  • 9. Comparative Models of Transition: Canada, Britain, and Sweden
  • 10. Findings and Conclusions.