Children's Lives, Children's Futures: A Study of Children Starting Secondary School

by Paul Croll, Gaynor Attwood, Carol Fuller

Book Overview

In many Western societies there is concern that children from less advantaged social backgrounds have limited aspirations, and are disproportionately unlikely to go to university. Children's Lives, Children's Futures explores how children in their first year of secondary school feel about school, its place in their lives and its role in their futures. The authors use child voice to look at the ways in which children are active constructors of their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441127658
• ISBN13: 9781441127655
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"