Experience of School Transitions Policies, Practice and Participants

Synopsis

Leaving school, whether to move on to training, work or education, is a fundamental rite of passage the world over. This volume draws on a wealth of international sources and studies in its analysis of the ‘transitions’ young students make as they move on from their secondary schooling. It identifies how these transitions are planned for by policymakers, enacted by school staff and engaged with by students themselves. With data from a range of nations with advanced industrial economies, the book delineates how the policies relating to these transitions need to be conceived and implemented, how the transitions themselves are negotiated by young people, and how they might be shaped to meet the varied needs of the students they are designed to help. The authors argue that the relationship, often complex, between what schools provide in the way of preparation, and the ways in which students take up what is on offer, is the crucial nexus for understanding the experience of transitions by young people, and for enhancing that experience. With a host of case studies of transition policies themselves, as well as evaluative data on how they were received by the school leavers whom they were designed for, this valuable addition to the educational literature deserves to be read by all those with roles in preparing the young for their journey into a complex adult world full of pitfalls as well as opportunity.

Book details

Edition:

2012

Author:

Stephen Billett, Greer Johnson, Sue Thomas, Cheryl Sim, Stephen Hay and Jill Ryan

ISBN:

9789400741980

Related ISBNs:

9789400741973

Publisher:

Springer Netherlands

Pages:

N/A

Reading age:

Not specified

Includes images:

Yes

Date of addition:

2022-08-03

Usage restrictions:

Copyright

Copyright date:

2012

Copyright by:

Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Categories:

Business and Finance, Education, Nonfiction, Politics and Government