Description

How do Canadian students perceive and prepare for the world of work? To what extent do gender, race, region and social class shape their aspirations, opportunities, and experiences?

Transitions: Schooling and Employment in Canada presents research by scholars from across Canada engaged in the study of youth, schooling, employment and social change. The aim of the book is to describe the multiple transitions that young adults encounter in their journey from school to the world of paid employment.

Different contexts and conditions affect these transitions and the authors employ historical, qualitative and quantitative methodologies in identifying them. Particular attention is paid to the themes of gender, socio-economic status, ethnocultural origin, and region.

In analyzing their findings, the authors apply a wide range of theories, including developmental, sociological, and social/psychological. In addition, a number of the essays have implications for policy making in the areas of education and employment.

The contributors to this volume explore the experiences of rural youth in Nova Scotia, blacks in Toronto, and high school students in Vancouver. They suggest new approaches to researching native communities and the lives of female adolescents.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction by Jane Gaskell

PART I: Communities and Constituencies

• 1. Getting There and Staying There: Blacks' Employment Experience by Carl E. James
• 2. Gender Tracks: Male-Female Perceptions of Home-School-Work Transition by Nancy Mandell
• 3. Interconnected Transitions and Their Costs; Gender and Urban/Rural Differences in the Transition to Work by Dianne Looker
• 4. Transition of Adolescents into Science Career Pathways by John H. Lewko, Carol Hein, Rashmi Garg and Geoffrey Tesson
• 5. Lifelong Education and Chronic Underemployment: Exploring the Contradiction by D.W. Livingstone
• 6. Universities, Graduates, and the Marketplace: Canadian Patterns and Prospects by Paul Anisef and Paul Axelrod

PART II: Perspectives and Research Methodologies Transitions

• 7. From School to Work and Back: A New Paradigm by Alan M. Thomas

• 8. Education and Employment in Quebec: A Review of the Literature by Pierre Dandur and Roland Ouellet

• 9. Life Trajectories, Action, and Negotiating the Transition from High School by Leslie Andres Bellamy

• 10. First Nations Empowerment in Community Based Research by Schuyler Webster and Herbert Nabigon 11. Panel Studies of the Transition from School to Work: Some Methodological Considerations by Harvey Krahn, Clay Mosher and Laura Johnson
• Bibliography
• Index