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Becoming Adult

How Teenagers Prepare For The World Of Work

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By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

By Barbara Schneider

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On Sale
Apr 6, 2001
Page Count
320 pages
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-13
9780465015412

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$21.99

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$28.99 CAD

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  1. Trade Paperback $21.99 $28.99 CAD
  2. ebook $9.99 $12.99 CAD

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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.

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  • “Sure to be of major importance to educators and social scientists, this study will also benefit parents and general readers.”
    Publishers Weekly
  • “Becoming Adult is an important book. Tackling an area about which little is known—American adolescents and the world of work—the book provides valuable quantitative and qualitative findings, many of them surprising.”
    Howard Gardner, author of Frames of Mind

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

About the Author

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.

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Barbara Schneider

About the Author

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. James S. Coleman was University Professor at the University of Chicago until his death in 1995.

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