Young People in Transition: Becoming Citizens? [Hardcover]

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.Young People in Transition. Becoming Citizens? An Introduction; C.Pole, J.Pilcher and J.Williams Complex Transitions: Linearity and Labour Market Integration in the West of Scotland; A.Furlong, F.Carmel, A.Biggart, H.Sweeting and P.West Learning for Life? The Post-war Experience of Apprenticeship; S.Vickerstaff Girls' Transition to Work and adulthood in the 1960s; H.O'Connor and J.Goodwin Fashioning Flexibility: Dissolving Boundaries between Employment, Education, and the Family among A-Level Students Engaged in Full-time Schooling and Part-time Jobs; P.Allatt and C.Dixon Leaving The Home in Comparative Perspective: Negotiating Processes and Meanings; D.H.J.Morgan, J.Patiniotis and C.Holdsworth Youth Unemployment and Social Exclusion; K.Roberts Citizenship Education. The French and English Experience; D.Kiwan and N.Kiwan Young People as 'Active Citizens'. Towards an Inclusionary View of Citizenship and Constructive Social Participation; N.Smith, R.Lister and S.Middleton Engaged Cynics? Young People's Involvement in Politics and Decision- Making in the UK; E.Fahmy IndexPAT ALLATT Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Teesside, UKFRED CARTMEL Lecturer, Youth, Education and Employment Research Unit, Glasgow University, UKCAROLYN DIXON Teaches in Secondary schools and is an artist, UKELDIN FAHMY ESRC/ODPM Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School for PlÛ