Transitions and Learning through the Lifecourse

Transitions and Learning through the Lifecourse
Author: Kathryn Ecclestone
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2009-10-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135270988

Like many ideas that inform policy, practice and research, ‘transition’ has many meanings. Children make a transition to adulthood, pupils move from primary to secondary school, and there is then a movement from school to work, training or further education. Transitions can lead to profound and positive change and be an impetus for new learning for some individuals and be unsettling, difficult and unproductive for others. Transitions have become a key concern for policy makers and the subject of numerous policy changes over the past ten years. They are also of interest to researchers and professionals working with different groups. Transitions and Learning Through the Lifecourse examines transitions across a range of education, life and work settings. It explores the claim that successful transitions are essential for educational inclusion, social achievement, and economic prosperity and that individuals and institutions need to manage them more effectively. Aimed primarily at academic researchers and students at all levels of study across a range of disciplines, including education, careers studies, sociology, feminist and cultural studies, this book is the first systematic attempt to bring together and evaluate insights about educational, life and work transitions from a range of different fields of research. Contributions include: The transition between home and school The effects of gender, class and age Transitions to further and higher education Transitions for students with disabilities Transitions into the workplace Learning within the workplace Approaches to managing transitions

A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions

A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions
Author: Claudine Burton-Jeangros
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2015-08-11
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 331920484X

This open access book examines health trajectories and health transitions at different stages of the life course, including childhood, adulthood and later life. It provides findings that assess the role of biological and social transitions on health status over time. The essays examine a wide range of health issues, including the consequences of military service on body mass index, childhood obesity and cardiovascular health, socio-economic inequalities in preventive health care use, depression and anxiety during the child rearing period, health trajectories and transitions in people with cystic fibrosis and oral health over the life course. The book addresses theoretical, empirical and methodological issues as well as examines different national contexts, which help to identify factors of vulnerability and potential resources that support resilience available for specific groups and/or populations. Health reflects the ability of individuals to adapt to their social environment. This book analyzes health as a dynamic experience. It examines how different aspects of individual health unfold over time as a result of aging but also in relation to changing socioeconomic conditions. It also offers readers potential insights into public policies that affect the health status of a population.

Transitions and the Lifecourse

Transitions and the Lifecourse
Author: Amanda Grenier
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2012
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1847426913

This book offers a unique perspective on ideas about late life as expressed in social policy and socio-cultural constructs of age with lived experience.

Transitions and Transformations

Transitions and Transformations
Author: Caitrin Lynch
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2013-04-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857457799

Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to studying life-course transitions in conjunction with broader sociocultural transformations. Through detailed accounts, in such diverse settings as nursing homes in Sri Lanka, a factory in Massachusetts, cemeteries in Japan and clinics in Mexico, the authors explore not simply our understandings of growing older, but the interweaving of individual maturity and intergenerational relationships, social and economic institutions, and intimate experiences of gender, identity, and the body.

Stress and Adversity Over the Life Course

Stress and Adversity Over the Life Course
Author: Ian H. Gotlib
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1997-06-13
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780521550758

This book examines the influence of early stressful experiences over the life course.

Handbook of the Life Course

Handbook of the Life Course
Author: Michael J. Shanahan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 709
Release: 2015-10-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319208802

Building on the success of the 2003 Handbook of the Life Course, this second volume identifies future directions for life course research and policy. The introductory essay and the chapters that make up the five sections of this book, show consensus on strategic “next steps” in life course studies. These next steps are explored in detail in each section: Section I, on life course theory, provides fresh perspectives on well-established topics, including cohorts, life stages, and legal and regulatory contexts. It challenges life course scholars to move beyond common individualistic paradigms. Section II highlights changes in major institutional and organizational contexts of the life course. It draws on conceptual advances and recent empirical findings to identify promising avenues for research that illuminate the interplay between structure and agency. It examines trends in family, school, and workplace, as well as contexts that deserve heightened attention, including the military, the criminal justice system, and natural and man-made disaster. The remaining three sections consider advances and suggest strategic opportunities in the study of health and development throughout the life course. They explore methodological innovations, including qualitative and three-generational longitudinal research designs, causal analysis, growth curves, and the study of place. Finally, they show ways to build bridges between life course research and public policy.

Methods of Life Course Research

Methods of Life Course Research
Author: Janet Z. Giele
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 361
Release: 1998-03-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 145225107X

What are the most effective methods for doing life-course research? In this volume, the field's founders and leaders answer this question, giving readers tips on: the art and method of the appropriate research design; the collection of life-history data; and the search for meaningful patterns to be found in the results.

Psychobiographical Illustrations on Meaning and Identity in Sociocultural Contexts

Psychobiographical Illustrations on Meaning and Identity in Sociocultural Contexts
Author: Claude-Hélène Mayer
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2022-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3030812383

This book explores psychobiography with focus on meaning making and identity development in the life and works of extraordinary individuals. Meaning-making and identity development are existential constructs influencing psychological development, mental health and wellbeing across the lifecourse. The chapters illustrate through the eyes of 25 international psychobiographers various theoretical and methodological approaches to psychobiography. They explore how individuals, such as Angela Merkel, Karl Lagerfeld, Henri Nouwen, Vivian Maier, Charles Baudelaire, W.E.B. du Bois, Loránt Hegedüs, Kim Philby, Zoltan Paul Dienes, Albertina Sisulu, Ruth First, Sokrates, and Jesus construct their lives to make meaning, develop their identities and grow as individuals within their sociocultural contexts. The texts provide deep insight into life’s development.

Transitions and Learning Through the Lifecourse

Transitions and Learning Through the Lifecourse
Author: Kathryn Ecclestone
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2009-10-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135270996

‘Transition’ has numerous everyday and conceptual meanings yet, while certain transitions are unsettling and difficult for some people, risk, challenge and even difficulty might also be important factors in successful transitions for others.

Social Networks and the Life Course

Social Networks and the Life Course
Author: Duane F. Alwin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2018-03-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319715445

This volume engages the interface between the development of human lives and social relational networks. It focuses on the integration of two subfields of sociology/social science--the life course and social networks. Research practitioners studying social networks typically focus on social structure or social organization, ignoring the complex lives of the people in those networks. At the same time, life course researchers tend to focus on individual lives without necessarily studying the contexts of social relationships in which lives are embedded and “linked” to one another through social networks. These patterns are changing and this book creates an audience of researchers who will better integrate the two subfields. It covers the role of social networks across the life span, from childhood and adolescence, to midlife, through old age.