Becoming Adult
How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work
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Formats and Prices
- On Sale
- Apr 6, 2001
- Page Count
- 320 pages
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780465015412
Price
$21.99Price
$28.99 CADFormat
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- Trade Paperback $21.99 $28.99 CAD
- ebook $9.99 $12.99 CAD
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“An important book.” ―Howard Gardner, author of Frames of Mind
How do young people envision their future careers? What can families, schools, and communities do to help teenagers develop habits and values that will be useful in their occupational lives? In this groundbreaking work, psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and sociologist Barbara Schneider draw on a unique longitudinal study to reveal how adolescents develop attitudes, skill and expectations about their adult careers.
Csikszentmihalyi and Schneider examined an unusually broad cross-section of educational institutions to produce a surprising and detailed portrait of the different ways adolescents manage the transition from school to work. Becoming Adult challenges conventional wisdom, with important implications for how we guide young people to prepare themselves for the lives they will lead in the years to come.
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“Sure to be of major importance to educators and social scientists, this study will also benefit parents and general readers.”Publishers Weekly
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“Becoming Adult is an important book. Tackling an area about which little is known—American adolescents and the world of work—the book provides valuable quantitative and qualitative findings, many of them surprising.”Howard Gardner, author of Frames of Mind
