Juggling Rhythms

Alison Taylor is a professor in Education at the University of British Columbia. She has published monographs, journal articles, and book chapters on students’ transitions to work and community-engaged learning, including Vocational Education in Canada (Oxford, 2016).

• AcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations1 Transitions Then and Now: A Biographic Perspective1 Introduction2 Investing in Education … and More Education3 Studying Working Students4 Book Themes5 Organization of the Book2 Student as Consumer, Investor, and Juggler1 Introduction2 The Student as Consumer3 The Student as Investor4 Education as Gift, Self-Appreciation, and Creative Human Activity5 The Student as Juggler3 Working Students and the Paradoxes of Time1 Introduction2 Research on Work Intensity3 Research on Work-Study Roles4 Students and Lived Time5 Concluding Comments4 Student as Juggler1 Introduction2 Conceptual and Analytical Influences3 The Juggling Rhythms of Eight Students4 Discussion and Conclusion: Comparing Juggling Rhythms5 Student as High-Wire Walker1 Introduction2 Conceptual and Analytical Influences3 The High-Wire Walking of Nine Students4 Comparing High-Wire Walking6 Student as Contortionist and Sword Swallower1 Introduction2 Conceptual and Analytical Influences3 How Ten Students Bend4 Comparing Contortion and Sword Swallowing7 Concluding Thoughts about Work, Studies, and Circus Arts1 Learning to Labour and Labouring to Learn2 Education as Gift (or, Beyond the Human Capital Ledger) and University as Model EmployerAppendix A: Student Cases in Chapters 4 to 6 (N = 27)ReferencesIndex