Making modern lives
Subtitle: subjectivity, schooling, and social change
By: Julie McLeod and Lyn Yates.
Contributors: Yates, Lyn, 1949-
Series: SUNY series, power, social identity, and education
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Education -- Social aspects -- Australia -- Longitudinal studies; Students -- Australia -- Longitudinal studies; Subjectivity -- Australia v Longitudinal studies
Genres: Longitudinal studies.
Description: "Making Modern Lives looks at how young people shape their lives as they move through their secondary school years and into the world beyond. It explores how they develop dispositions, attitudes, identities, and orientations in modern society. Based on an eight-year study consisting of more the 350 in-depth interviews with young Australians from diverse backgrounds, the book reveals the effects of schooling and of local school cultures on young people's choices, future plans, political values, friendships, and attitudes toward school, work, and sense of self. Making Modern Lives uncovers who young people are today, what type of identities and inequalities are being formed and reformed, and what processes and politics are at work in relation to gender, class, race, and the framing of vocational futures."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Modern lives, subjectivity, schooling and social change; title: Researching subjectivity and schooling-on method and what it means to work with theory; title: What is a good student?; title: Becoming someone as project and as process; title: Dreams and pathways : identity-making and vocational choices; title: Who is 'us'? : Australian students on politics, racism ethnicity and unemployment; title: Class in the new world and the new economy; title: Gender themes in a changing world; title: Schooling, schooling politics and making modern lives.