Gap Year: How Delaying College Changes People in Ways the World Needs
O’Shea asks whether gap years are worthwhile with gusto and authority. His rich qualitative approach, packed with student interviews, provides ample evidence that the answer is 'Yes.' That year, done well, can be a springboard to college success by giving students strength, grit, confidence, inspiration, knowledge, curiosity, empathy, and more.(John B. Bader, author ofDean's List: Eleven Habits of Highly Successful College Students)Gap Yearis a thoughtful, well-researched book and fine resource for learning more about why students choose to take a gap year and its transformational results. I particularly liked its in-depth look at the psychology behind, during, and after the gap year experience.(Holly Bull, Ed.M, gap year counselor, Center for Interim Programs)O'Shea does more than present stories. By situating narratives within a theoretical framework, he makes a strong case for using the gap year as a means to further students' education.(Library Journal)Higher education collections should consider this a basic!(Midwest Book Review)