Voices of reason : adolescents talk about their futures over time / Steven B. Sachs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sachs, Steven B., 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenagers--United States--Life skills guides.

Teenagers.

Teenagers--Vocational guidance--United States.

Decision making in adolescence--United States.

Decision making in adolescence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Based on a five-year study, this work uses excerpts from interviews to examine ten adolescents' reasoning or ""groundedness"" for choices they make about their future, and offers suggestions for improving guidance services.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Theoretical Orientation; 3 The Great Orator; 4 Goes With the Wind; 5 Pulling Teeth; 6 A Balancing Act; 7 Getting the Job Done; 8 The Com passionate Communicator; 9 Two Voices; 10 Seeing Beyond the Talk; 11 Conclusion Implications for Research and Practice; Appendix 1 Selective Quantitative Findings from Early Questionnaire; Appendix 2 General Coding Categories; Appendix 3 Rules for Coding Future Talk; Appendix 4 Coder Instructions Coding Future Talk; Appendix 5 Interviewer Discourse Codes Examples

Appendix 6 Discussion about Reliability and Validity in This StudyBibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-276) and index.

ISBN:

9781429473026

1429473029

9780313075629

031307562X

OCLC:

191035422