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 traditional treatment of youth issues or ‘problems’, providing discussion of topics like young people’s learning and work, their creativity, wellbeing and active citizenship.

intervention
transformation
youth

• Front Matter
• Introduction
• Growing Up: Global, Local, Rural
• Making a Life in Myrtle Vale
• Storying: Towards an Interpretive Framework
• Negotiating Changes
• Practices of Engagement
• Resources
• Resource Flows
• Familiar Patterns and Transformations
• Implications and Interventions
• Research and Theory as Grounded Social Practice
• Back Matter

The University of Melbourne, Australia
Ani Wierenga

Book Title
Young People Making a Life

Authors
Ani Wierenga

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583405

Hardcover ISBN
978-0-230-54928-9
Published: 27 November 2008

Softcover ISBN
978-1-349-36174-8
Published: 01 January 2009

eBook ISBN
978-0-230-58340-5
Published: 27 November 2008

Edition Number
1

Number of Pages
X, 243

Topics
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Social Work, Education, general, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Social Care