On their own? : making the transition from school to work in the information age / Stewart Crysdale, Alan J.C. King, and Nancy Mandell ; with David H. Ashton, Rune Axelsson and Erik Wallin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crysdale, Stewart.

Contributor:

King, Alan J. C.

Mandell, Nancy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School-to-work transition--Canada.

School-to-work transition.

Youth--Employment--Canada.

Youth.

Labor market--Canada.

Labor market.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Making the transition from school to work in the information age

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using a sample of 324 young adults in four urban centres who left high school in the mid-1980s as well as interviews with representative parents, former teachers, and employers, the authors identify factors that ease transition from school to. These include level of education, social class, gender, ethnicity, aspirations of parents, help from role models, participation in co-op education, and most important of all, self-motivation. The authors describe a range of youth profiles -- uncommitted, non-careerists, conservatives, and innovators -- that will help youth, parents, and educators identify present development and how to improve performance. Emphasizing the importance of co-operative education, the authors suggest that closer relations between school and work, such as exist in the United Kingdom and Sweden, facilitate transition into the labour market. On Their Own will guide parents, youth, educators, trustees, employers, and ministries of education and training to prepare a new generation of productive, resilient workers and managers for success in the information age.

Contents:

Intro; Contents; Figures and Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Along the Way: Emerging Experiences; 3 The Family's Heritage: Class, Gender, and Ethnicity; 4 Education and Transition: The Salience of Learning; 5 Cooperative Education: A Bridging Program; 6 Employers and Transition; 7 Value Consonance and Transition; 8 Testing the Model: Transition as a Cumulative Process; 9 Comparative Models of Transition: Canada, Britain, and Sweden; 10 Findings and Conclusions; Notes; Appendix: Additional Tables; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-171) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85528-X

9786612855283

0-7735-6743-7

OCLC:

929120919