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 …

Young People Making it Work examines a generation's lives in rural Australia over the last
two decades. Against a backdrop of dramatic social, economic and environmental change …

By addressing themes such as social and economic change, government policy and gender
relations, this volume tackles the thematic complexities of sustainability. At the heart of this …

This book explores the challenge of making a life: finding meaning, livelihood and social
connectedness. Drawing on research with young people, the analysis goes beyond …

This paper documents the voices of Australian rural students as a means of examining
students' views of the obstacles confronting them in their endeavours to fulfil the aspirations …

The phenomenon of youth out-migration from rural areas has attracted renewed
governmental attention in the context of recent rural economic adjustment and decline …

Indigenous Australians have been known to be disadvantaged in many ways although
higher art and physical self-concepts have been reported with Indigenous samples. Given …

Introduction: Aboriginal adolescents living in or near rural towns have different social and
cultural needs than Aboriginal adolescents living in large cities or remote areas …

This paper investigates regional Australian students' aspirations and expectations for their
future and, more specifically, the manner in which these are formulated around a view to …

Although any 'choice'young people make about higher education incorporates a subtle
interplay of individual agency, circumstance and social structure, the centrality of identity in …