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  • Human development in context

    The study of risk and resilience

    by Ingrid Schoon ...
    Series series Inaugural Professorial Lecture
    An Inaugural Professorial Lecture Human development takes place through processes of progressively more complex and reciprocal interactions between a growing individual and a changing context. Using evidence from longitudinal data, following individual lives over time, it is possible to gain some insights into how children and their families respond to socio-structural opportunities and ... Read more

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  • Gender Differences in Aspirations and Attainment

    A Life Course Perspective

    What is the role of parents, peers and teachers in shaping school experiences and informing the career choice of males and females? Does the school context matter, and to what extent do educational experiences influence young people's self-concept, values and their outlook to the future? Do teenage aspirations influence later outcomes regarding educational attainment and the assumption of work and ... Read more

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    Educational opportunities, motivation and attainment in times of social change

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    Among the many life transitions that individuals must master throughout their lives, the transition to adulthood ranks very high in terms of importance, complexity and uniqueness. It involves the completion of education, and the assumption of new social roles and responsibilities, at a time when previous institutional structures that guided transitions throughout the school system are falling away ... Read more

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  • Young People's Development and the Great Recession

    Uncertain Transitions and Precarious Futures

    Edited by Ingrid Schoon, John Bynner ...
    The 2007–8 financial crisis and subsequent 'Great Recession' particularly affected young people trying to make their way from education into the labour market at a time of economic uncertainty and upheaval. This is the first volume to examine the impact of the Great Recession on the developmental stage of young adulthood, a critical phase of the life course that has great significance in the ... Read more

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  • Transitions from School to Work

    Globalization, Individualization, and Patterns of Diversity

    Series series The Jacobs Foundation Series on Adolescence
    This volume made an important contribution to the growing literature on the transition from school to work. It provides a different perspective on the global changes that have transformed school-to-work transitions since the 1970s; offers an integrative conceptual framework for analysis; and promotes a comparative, cross-national understanding of school-to-work transitions in a changing social ... Read more

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