Choosing Futures

Education is becoming more competitive choice in education is now a keyissue. This book will help parents schools colleges universities and policymakers unders... » 

Education is becoming more competitive choice in education is now a keyissue. This book will help parents schools colleges universities and policymakers understand how education and training markets work. Choosing Futuresoffers a wide ranging perspective on how young people and their parents makechoices as they travel through a lifetime of education and training. Theauthors challenge traditional views of how choices are made of primary schoolsecondary school college university and career which assume that choices arerational and objective. Instead this book reveals how choices depend upon arange of factorsyoung peoples personal experiencesindividual and family historiesperceptions of education and careers.The book compares choice for 5 to 11 year olds and for 16 and 18 year oldsdrawing out models of the decision making process and at the same time theconsequences on schools colleges and individuals of enhanced choice. «