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Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work
Author(s): Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Author), Barbara L. Schneider (Author)
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Publication Date: 10 May 2000
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 0465015409
- ISBN-13: 9780465015405
Book Description
The best-selling author of Flow and an award-winning sociologist draw on a unique longitudinal study to reveal how adolescents develop attitudes, skills, and expectations about their adult careers.. How do young people envision their occupational futures? What do teenagers feel about their schooling and after-school work, and how do these experiences affect their passage to adult work? These are the questions that psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and sociologist Barbara Schneider posed in their five-year study of adolescents. The results provide an unprecedented window on society’s future through which we can glimpse how today’s youth are preparing themselves for the lives they will lead in the decades to come.
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About the Author
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is professor of psychology and education at the University of Chicago. He is the author of a number of books, including the bestselling Flow, The Evolving Self, Creativity, and Being Adolescent.
