Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future provides a provocative and valuable insight
into how the dramatic social and economic changes of the last twenty years have affected …

In Australia there is a quiet debate occurring about civics and citizenship education. It is a
debate that is about young people, but that seldom involves young people. Perhaps in the …

This report was commissioned by the Queensland Department of Education and the Arts
(QDEA) on behalf of the National Fund for Educational Research to identify the main drivers …

Youth educational transitions have transformed since the 1970s, in response to dramatic
changes in the labour market and associated policy shifts in relation to post‐compulsory …

Efforts to increase senior secondary retention rates and improve schooling for marginalized
students have been influenced by the school effectiveness perspective. This paper outlines …

This review of current research into 'at-risk'programs serves to categorise and characterise
existing programs and to evaluate the contribution of these programs to assisting students 'at …

In Children Taken Seriously, leading researchers and policy makers consider how children
can be recognized as social actors rather than passive consumers or victims. Using …

This chapter comprises a case study of the values education practices of a school heavily
involved in the Australian Values Education programme. It is constructed in a way that …

The purpose of the present article is to outline and illustrate an analytical approach that
accentuates the biographically complex processes inhering within early school leaving …

Men Not at Work: An Analysis of Men Outside the Page 1 Men Not at Work: An Analysis of Men
Outside the Labour Force Staff Working Paper Ralph Lattimore The views expressed in this paper …