Shaping Futures

• 1. Education, Work and Citizenship: Beyond the Work-Related Curriculum. 2. Effective Workers, Good Citizens? Legacies of the Past. 3. Gaining the Competitive Edge? 4. Opportunity Structures and Status Passages: Metaphors for Transitions to Adult Life. 5. Winners and Losers in Transition. 6. Competence and Citizenship: Which Versions are Required for Times of Critical Social Change? 7. Back to the Future: from Transferable Skills to Educated Attributes.

’This outstanding book is a refreshing change from so much half-aware writing about preparation for work or preparation for life. This book is full of meat from the author’s own researches and experience in Britain, in other European countries and North America; but it is also enriched by research partnerships across the continents. It opens our eyes to present actuality, but still more to the future already beckoning young adults personally and occupationally.’ Edmund King, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of London, UK ’...brief yet concise...Evans is successful both in provoking the reader to ask important questions surrounding citizenship and competency and in identifying some of the broader factors for supporting rather than inhibiting young people’s transitions into adulthood and the workplace.’ Journal of Youth Studies