Review of Gap Year Provision
Author | : Andrew Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Gap years |
ISBN | : 9781844782741 |
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Author | : Andrew Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Gap years |
ISBN | : 9781844782741 |
Author | : Joseph O'Shea |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1421410362 |
The idea of the gap year has taken hold in America. Since its development in Britain nearly fifty years ago, taking time off between secondary school and college has allowed students the opportunity to travel, develop crucial life skills, and grow up, all while doing volunteer work in much-needed parts of the developing world.
Author | : Helene Snee |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2016-03-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317188616 |
Does travel broaden the mind? This book explores this question through an innovative sociological study of gap year travel. Taking a year out overseas between school and university is an increasingly legitimate practice for young people in the UK. But what do young people get out of gap years? A wide range of 'official' sources acknowledge gap years as a way of becoming a global citizen and more employable at the same time. Instead of automatically assuming that gap years are a 'good thing', this book critically considers how this contemporary rite of passage could contribute to the reproduction of structural disadvantage at both a national and international level in relation to young people's routes into education and employment, and representations of difference and distinction in cultural practices. The key argument running throughout the book is that well-established ways of thinking about and understanding the world are used to frame gap year experiences, including how other people and places are different; the influence of class in determining what has cultural value; and what sort of identity work is worthwhile. Gap years are located at a point where a number of fields overlap: education, employment and the consumption of leisure travel. A Cosmopolitan Journey? will therefore be of interest to students, academics and practitioners in these areas.
Author | : Alison Withers |
Publisher | : John Catt Educational Ltd |
Total Pages | : 515 |
Release | : 2009-11 |
Genre | : Students |
ISBN | : 1904724701 |
'The Gap-Year Guidebook 2010' has comprehensive advice on travelling, volunteering, working round the world, languages, sports courses, office skills, career breaks and life after the gap year.
Author | : R. Brooks |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2009-03-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230235409 |
Bringing together contributions from international scholars, this book explores the changing nature of young people's transitions and challenges assumptions about pathways from education into employment in contemporary society.
Author | : Anna Irimiás |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 2023-03-23 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1804551473 |
Anna Irimiás provides an informed overview on the characteristics of youth tourists with a focus on tourism consumption. Youth tourists’ pre-trip, on-stay and post-trip tourism behaviours are studied in light of the current trends. Challenges and implications are critically analysed.
Author | : Edward Dutton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1351918370 |
How does university turn students into who they become? Why are student evangelicals such a significant and controversial force at so many universities? In many countries, university has become the main Rite of Passage between the child and adult worlds. University can be enjoyable and fascinating but also life-changing and traumatic. And at the exact time when a student's identity is the most challenged and uncertain, student evangelical groups are highly organised on many university campuses to offer students a powerful identity so that the world makes sense once again. For some, these groups will protect them from the university's assault on their faith. For others, they will challenge and even change who they are. Meeting Jesus at University explores universities in six countries. Drawing upon detailed fieldwork, it examines the largest student evangelical group at each university in order to understand in depth the relationship between the student evangelical group and the university which it aims to convert. Meeting Jesus at University offers an original contribution to the discussion of Rites of Passage, examining what is experienced at university and how university breaks down and remoulds young people. It explores why student evangelicals are so active, particularly at Britain and America's most prestigious and identity-challenging institutions meaning that students at these places are the most likely to find themselves meeting Jesus at university.
Author | : C. Rochester |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2016-01-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230279430 |
Expectations about the contribution that volunteering can make are at a new high. This book aims to meet this interest by bringing together in one volume what is known about the phenomenon of volunteering; the principles and practice of involving volunteers, and the enduring challenges for volunteering in today's world.
Author | : Jamie Lorimer |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2015-04-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1452944296 |
Elephants rarely breed in captivity and are not considered domesticated, yet they interact with people regularly and adapt to various environments. Too social and sagacious to be objects, too strange to be human, too captive to truly be wild, but too wild to be domesticated—where do elephants fall in our understanding of nature? In Wildlife in the Anthropocene, Jamie Lorimer argues that the idea of nature as a pure and timeless place characterized by the absence of humans has come to an end. But life goes on. Wildlife inhabits everywhere and is on the move; Lorimer proposes the concept of wildlife as a replacement for nature. Offering a thorough appraisal of the Anthropocene—an era in which human actions affect and influence all life and all systems on our planet— Lorimer unpacks its implications for changing definitions of nature and the politics of wildlife conservation. Wildlife in the Anthropocene examines rewilding, the impacts of wildlife films, human relationships with charismatic species, and urban wildlife. Analyzing scientific papers, policy documents, and popular media, as well as a decade of fieldwork, Lorimer explores the new interconnections between science, politics, and neoliberal capitalism that the Anthropocene demands of wildlife conservation. Imagining conservation in a world where humans are geological actors entangled within and responsible for powerful, unstable, and unpredictable planetary forces, this work nurtures a future environmentalism that is more hopeful and democratic.
Author | : Ciaran Burke |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2018-07-11 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1351401238 |
In a world where there are increasing concerns about graduate underemployment and likely career trajectories, it is not surprising that there is a significant body of literature examining graduate careers in post-industrial societies. However, it has become increasingly evident in recent years that there is a stark disconnect between academics who research employment and education, and careers and employability professionals. Graduate Careers in Context brings these two separate groups together for the first time in order to provide a better understanding of graduate careers. The book addresses the problems surrounding the graduate labour market and its relationship to higher education and public policy. Drawing on varied perspectives, the contributors provide a comprehensive examination of issues such as geography, mobility and employability, before presenting and discussing the benefits of future collaboration between practitioners and academic researchers. The interdisciplinary focus of this book will make it of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the areas of education, sociology, social policy, business studies and career guidance and coaching. It should also be essential reading for practitioners who wish to consider their role and responsibilities within the changing higher education market.