Young People in Transition

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Young People in Transition: Becoming Citizens? An Introduction

   • Christopher Pole, Jane Pilcher, John Williams

   Pages 1-11

3. Complex Transitions: Linearity and Labour Market Integration in the West of Scotland

   • Andy Furlong, Fred Cartmel, Andy Biggart, Helen Sweeting, Patrick West

   Pages 12-30

4. Learning for Life? The Postwar Experience of Apprenticeship

   • Sarah Vickerstaff

   Pages 31-51

5. Girls’ Transitions to Work and Adulthood in the 1960s

   • Henrietta O’Connor, John Goodwin

   Pages 52-73

6. Fashioning Flexibility: Dissolving Boundaries between Employment, Education and the Family among A-level Students Engaged in Full-time Schooling and Part-time Jobs

   • Pat Allatt, Carolyn Dixon

   Pages 74-96

7. Leaving the Home in Comparative Perspective: Negotiating Processes and Meanings

   • David H. J. Morgan, Jackie Patiniotis, Clare Holdsworth

   Pages 97-115

8. Youth Unemployment and Social Exclusion

   • Ken Roberts

   Pages 116-135

9. Citizenship Education: The French and English Experience

   • Dina Kiwan, Nadia Kiwan

   Pages 136-158

10. Young People as ‘Active Citizens’: Towards an Inclusionary View of Citizenship and Constructive Social Participation

    • Noel Smith, Ruth Lister, Sue Middleton

    Pages 159-177

11. Engaged Cynics? Young People’s Involvement in Politics and Decision-making in the UK

    • Eldin Fahmy

    Pages 178-201

12. Back Matter

    Pages 203-208

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The essays in this collection represent a major contribution to our understanding of youth and transitions to key areas of adult citizenship, including employment, independent living arrangements and political participation. The education of children and young people in 'citizenship' usually emphasizes either rights or responsibilities, through the concept of 'active citizenship'. The central concern of the book is to address the tensions and contradictions between the teaching of active citizenship and the real life difficulties many young people face in the practical transition to being adult citizens in modern life.

• children
• Citizenship
• education
• girls
• integration
• labor market
• participation
• Political Participation
• schooling
• unemployment
• youth

• University of Leicester, UK

  Christopher Pole, Jane Pilcher

• Centre for the Sociology of Sport, University of Leicester, UK

  John Williams

PAT ALLATT Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Teesside, UK FRED CARTMEL Lecturer, Youth, Education and Employment Research Unit, Glasgow University, UK CAROLYN DIXON Teaches in Secondary schools and is an artist, UK ELDIN FAHMY ESRC/ODPM Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK ANDY FURLONG Professor of Sociology, University of Glasgow, UK CLARE HOLDSWORTH Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, UK DINA KIWAN Research Officer, Institute of Education, University of London, UK NADIA KIWAN Research Fellow, University of Southampton, UK RUTH LISTER Professor of Social Policy, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK SUE MIDDLETON Director fo the Centre for Research in Social Policy, UK DAVID MORGAN Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester, UK JACKIE PATINIOTIS works for Age Concern KEN ROBERTS Professor of Sociology, University of Liverpool, UK NOEL SMITH Research Associate at the Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University, UK HELEN SWEETING Research Scientist, MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit 'Youth Programme', UK SARAH VICKERSTAFF Reader in Employment Policy and Practice, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, UK PATRICK WEST Professor, University of Glasgow, UK

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