Making Modern Lives

Lyn Yates, Julie Mcleod

Description

Making Modern Lives looks at how young people shape their lives as they move through their secondary school years and into the world beyond. It explores how they develop dispositions, attitudes, identities, and orientations in modern society. Based on an eight-year study consisting of more than 350 in-depth interviews with young Australians from diverse backgrounds, the book reveals the effects of schooling and of local school cultures on young people's choices, future plans, political values, friendships, and attitudes toward school, work, and sense of self. Making Modern Lives uncovers who young people are today, what type of identities and inequalities are being formed and reformed, and what processes and politics are at work in relation to gender, class, race, and the framing of vocational futures.

Acknowledgments

1. Modern Lives, Subjectivity, Schooling, and Social Change

2. Researching Subjectivity and Schooling—On Method and What It Means to Work with Theory

3. What Is a Good Student?

4. Becoming Someone as Project and as Process

5. Dreams and Pathways: Identity-Making and Vocational Choices

6. Who Is “Us”?: Australian Students on Politics, Racism, Ethnicity, and Unemployment

7. Class in the New World and the New Economy

8. Gender Themes in a Changing World

9. Schooling, Schooling Politics, and Making Modern Lives

Appendix 1. Participant Snapshots

Appendix 2a. Summary of Pathways

Appendix 2b. Who Got What—School Contrasts

Appendix 2c. Future Daydreams and Plans

Notes
References
Index

Sujets

• Education

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791481745
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Making Modern Lives Julie McLeod and Lyn Yates

Subjectivity, Schooling, and Social Change

Making Modern Lives

SUNY Series Power, Social Identity, and Education

Lois Weis, editor

Making Modern Lives Subjectivity, Schooling, and Social Change

Julie McLeod and Lyn Yates

S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y O F N E W Y O R K P R E S S

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McLeod, Julie, 1958 – Making modern lives : subjectivity, schooling, and social change / Julie McLeod and Lyn Yates. p. cm. — (SUNY series, power, social identity, and education) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn0 –7914–6767–8 (hardcover : alk. paper) —isbn0 –7914–6768 –6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Education—Social aspects—Australia—Longitudinal studies. 2. Students—Australia—Longitudinal studies. 3. Subjectivity—Australia v Longitudinal studies. I. Yates, Lyn, 1949 – II. Title. III. Series. lc191.8.a8m35 2006 306.43'2'0994—dc22 2005018998

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Contents

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Chapter 1 Modern Lives, Subjectivity, Schooling, and Social Change

Chapter 2 Researching Subjectivity and Schooling—On Method and What It Means to Work with Theory

Chapter 3 What Is a Good Student?

Chapter 4 Becoming Someone as Project and as Process

Chapter 5 Dreams and Pathways: Identity-Making and Vocational Choices

Chapter 6 Who Is “Us”?: Australian Students on Politics, Racism, Ethnicity, and Unemployment

Chapter 7 Class in the New World and the New Economy

Chapter 8 Gender Themes in a Changing World

Chapter 9 Schooling, Schooling Politics, and Making Modern Lives

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Appendix 1 Participant Snapshots

Appendix 2a Summary of Pathways

Appendix 2b Who Got What—School Contrasts

Appendix 2c Future Daydreams and Plans

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This project has now been ove h r ten years in gestation, and during that time we have drawn upon support and assistance from many sources. Over the course of the study, our own lives have changed and taken different turns—new jobs, interstate moves, the birth and growing up of our own children. Longitudinal projects require a lot of commitment and depend on generous contributions from many people; the experiences and encounters that have happened along the way have been immensely enjoyable. We particularly want to thank the students who agreed to be part of this project, and who continued to give time to us for seven or eight years of their lives. Without their willingness, this study would not have happened. We also thank the teachers and schools who fa- cilitated our research, who set aside time for our visits, usually in the midst of busy school days, and showed an interest in our work. The 12 to 18 Project (on which this book is based) was made pos- sible by grants from the Australian Research Council (1996–99; 1999 –2000). We were given further support—through research grants and conference and research leave—by the universities in which we worked during the course of this project: La Trobe Univer- sity, Deakin University, and the University of Technology Sydney. We are extremely grateful for this as well as for support provided by re- search administrative staff in our departments. We were fortunate to work with many skilled research assistants and project officers. Those who worked on and provided support to ix