Choosing Futures: Young People's Decision-making in Education, Training, and Careers MarketsEducation is becoming more competitive - choice in education is now a key issue. This book will help parents, schools, colleges, universities and policy makers understand how education and training markets work. Choosing Futures offers a wide ranging perspective on how young people, and their parents, make choices as they travel through a lifetime of education and training. The authors challenge traditional views of how choices are made of primary school, secondary school, college, university and career, which assume that choices are rational and objective. Instead this book reveals how choices depend upon a range of factors: *young people's personal experiences *individual and family histories *perceptions of education and careers. The book compares choice for 5 to 11 year olds, and for 16 and 18 year olds; drawing out models of the decision making process, and at the same time the consequences on schools, colleges and individuals of 'enhanced choice'. |
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Page 228 - Foskett, NH (1995) Marketing, management and schools - a study of a developing market culture in secondary schools. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Southampton. Foskett, NH (1996) Conceptualising marketing in secondary schools - deconstructing an alien concept, in Proceedings of the 'Markets in Education, Policy, Process and Practice' Symposium, University of Southampton.
Page 234 - Lent (eds) Convergence in Career Development Theories: Implications for Science and Practice. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press. Szymanski, EM (1994) 'Transition: life-span and life-space considerations for empowerment', Exceptional Children, 60(5), 402-10. Taylor, MJ (1992) 'Post-16 options: young people's awareness, attitudes, intentions and influences on their choice', Research Papers in Education, 7(3), 301-34.
References to this book
14-19 Education: Policy, Leadership and Learning Jacky Lumby,Nicholas Foskett No preview available - 2005 |