Title Learning to fail : how society lets young people down / Fran Abrams.

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London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 167 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-167).
Contents	Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; The young people (some names have been changed); Introduction; Chapter 1 The importance of places; Chapter 2 Changing chances; Chapter 3 Aspirations; Chapter 4 Poverty; Chapter 5 School; Chapter 6 Changing families; Chapter 7 Street life; Chapter 8 Making choices; Chapter 9 Further trouble; Chapter 10 The world of work; Chapter 11 Race matters; Chapter 12 The difference for girls; Chapter 13 Reaching out; Conclusions; Footnote -- outcomes; Bibliography.
Summary	Blending interviews with those most closely affected together with views from key commentators and experts the author creates a vivid picture of a system and societal failure ... a failure both that is at once both embarrassing and avoidable.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Youth with social disabilities -- Education -- Great Britain -- Case studies.
	Youth with social disabilities -- Education.
	Great Britain.
Genre/Form	Case studies.
Subject	School failure -- Great Britain -- Case studies.
	School failure.
	Youth -- Employment -- Great Britain -- Case studies.
	Youth -- Employment.
	Youth -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
	Youth.
	Social conditions.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Subject	Youth.
Genre/Form	Case studies.
Other Form:	Print version: Abrams, Fran, 1963- Learning to fail. London ; New York : Routledge, 2010 9780415483957 (DLC) 2009017720 (OCoLC)297149137
ISBN	9780203864821 (electronic book)
	0203864824 (electronic book)
	0415483956
	0415483964
	9780415483957
	9780415483964

Title Learning to fail : how society lets young people down / Fran Abrams.

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