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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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©1999.
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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.