Becoming Adult - How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work

Informationen zum Autor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University and the founder and co-director of the Quality of Life Research Center. He is the author of a number of books, including the bestselling Flow, The Evolving Self, Creativity , and Being Adolescent . He lives in Claremont, California. Barbara Schneider is co-director of the Alfred P. Sloan Center on Parents, Children, and Work, and is professor of sociology at the University of Chicago. She has co-authored a number of books including The Ambitious Generation and Transforming Schools . Klappentext The best-selling author of "Flow" and an award-winning sociologist draw on a unique longitudinal study to reveal how adolescents develop attitudes, skills, and expectations about their adult careers. Zusammenfassung How do young people envision their occupational futures? What do teenagers feel about their schooling and after-school work, and how do these experiences affect their passage to adult work? These are the questions that psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and sociologist Barbara Schneider posed in their five-year study of adolescents. The results provide an unprecedented window on society's future through which we can glimpse how today's youth are preparing themselves for the lives they will lead in the decades to come.

Product details

• Authors: Mihaly Csikszentmihalhi, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Barbara Schneider, Barbara L. Schneider
• Publisher: Basic Books Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2001
• EAN: 9780465015412
• ISBN: 978-0-465-01541-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 205 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher