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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828971003321

Autore

Croll Paul

Titolo

Children's lives, children's futures : a study of children starting secondary school / / Paul Croll, Gaynor Attwood, and Carol Fuller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum International Pub. Group, c2010

ISBN

1-282-46668-2

9786612466687

1-4411-6110-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Collana

Continuum studies in educational research

Altri autori (Persone)

AttwoodGaynor <1948->

FullerCarol H

Disciplina

373.180941

Soggetti

Education, Secondary - Great Britain

School children - Great Britain

Social adjustment - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of tables; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Children and the future; 3 Educational futures: children's intentions for educational participation; 4 Children's occupational choices; 5 What children think about school; 6 Children as learners; 7 Early exits and negative attitudes; 8 Present and future: schools, structure, agency; Appendix 1: The research project; Appendix 2: Supplementary tables; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This highly topical monograph focuses on how children in their first year of high school feel about school, its place in their lives and its role in their futures. The theoretical context of the study is the focus in educational studies on children's voice and children's active role in education, together with the focus in the sociology of childhood on children as active constructors of their lives and childhood as a subject of serious study. The importance of young people's life plans and the alignment between education and ambitions was recognised in the Sloan Foundation study of American te