Making modern lives : subjectivity, schooling, and social change /
"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 the...
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Albany, NY :
State University of New York Press,
c2006
Albany, NY : ©2006 Albany, NY : [2006] |
| Series: | SUNY series power, social identity, and education
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Table of Contents:
- Modern lives, subjectivity, schooling and social change
- Researching subjectivity and schooling--on method and what it means to work with theory
- What is a good student?
- Becoming someone as project and as process
- Dreams and pathways : identity-making and vocational choices
- Who is "us"? : Australian students on politics, racism ethnicity and unemployment
- Class in the new world and the new economy
- Gender themes in a changing world
- Schooling, schooling politics and making modern lives
- Ch. 1 Modern lives, subjectivity, schooling, and social change
- Ch. 2. Researching subjectivity and schooling - on method and what it means to work with theory
- Ch. 3. What is a good student?
- Ch. 4. Becoming someone as project and as process
- Ch. 5. Dreams and pathways : identity-making and vocational choices
- Ch. 6. Who is "us"? : Australian students on politics, racism, ethnicity, and unemployment
- Ch. 7. Class in the new world and the new economy
- Ch. 8. Gender themes in a changing world
- Ch. 9. Schooling, schooling politics, and making modern lives.