Making Modern Lives

Julie McLeod is Senior Lecturer in Education at Deakin University, Australia. Lyn Yates is Foundation Professor of Curriculum at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and the author of The Education of Girls: Policy, Research, and the Question of Gender.

• Acknowledgments1. Modern Lives, Subjectivity, Schooling, and Social Change2. Researching Subjectivity and Schooling—On Method and What It Means to Work with Theory3. What Is a Good Student?4. Becoming Someone as Project and as Process5. Dreams and Pathways: Identity-Making and Vocational Choices6. Who Is "Us"?: Australian Students on Politics, Racism, Ethnicity, and Unemployment7. Class in the New World and the New Economy8. Gender Themes in a Changing World9. Schooling, Schooling Politics, and Making Modern LivesAppendix 1. Participant SnapshotsAppendix 2a. Summary of PathwaysAppendix 2b. Who Got What—School Contrasts Appendix 2c. Future Daydreams and PlansNotesReferencesIndex