The Ambitious Generation: America's Teenagers, Motivated but Directionless.

Autor/inn/en	Schneider, Barbara; Stevenson, David
Titel	The Ambitious Generation: America's Teenagers, Motivated but Directionless.
Quelle	(1999), (360 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	0-300-07982-6
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Academic Aspiration; Adolescents; Career Choice; Career Counseling; Career Development; College Bound Students; College Choice; Education Work Relationship; Noncollege Bound Students; Occupational Aspiration; Parent Child Relationship; School Guidance; Secondary School Students; Student Development; Student Motivation; Vocational Interests + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Berufsentwicklung; Studienortwahl; Berufsneigung; Berufsziel; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Sekundarschüler; Schulische Motivation; Berufsinteresse
Abstract	This volume is largely based on data from the Sloan Study of Youth and Social Development, a 5-year study begun in 1989 when many of the students were in eighth grade (n=7,000). This account presents good news and bad news about our teenagers. Contrary to prevailing notions, theirs is the most ambitious generation yet, but because schools and parents do a poor job of directing them, many take the wrong courses, choose the wrong colleges, and often finish college with neither job skills nor specific career goals. Besides a large-scale survey, students were interviewed over 5 years, and data from other sources are integrated into this work. Chapter 1, "Ambitious Adolescents," provides a case example of a typical teen, which serves to focus the research issues. Part 1 compares students from the 1950s and 1990s and includes chapters: (2) "Imagining the Future"; (3) "Trying to Make It with a High School Diploma"; and (4) "The Importance of Aligned Ambitions." Part 2 discusses "The Formation of Aligned Ambitions" in these chapters: (5) "Channeling Ambitions in High School"; (6) "Families and the Shaping of Aligned Ambitions"; (7) "Teenage Work and Internships"; and (8) "Being Alone and Being with Friends." Part 3, "Defining a Pathway," includes: (9) "The Ambition Paradox"; and (10) "Supporting the Development of Aligned Ambitions." Appendixes are: (A) The Alfred P. Sloan Study of Youth and Social Development; and (B) Logistic Regression Models. (EMK)
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Update	2004/1/01