Author: Helene Snee
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317188624
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Does travel broaden the mind? This book explores this question through an innovative sociological study of gap year travel. Taking a year out overseas between school and university is an increasingly legitimate practice for young people in the UK. But what do young people get out of gap years? A wide range of 'official' sources acknowledge gap years as a way of becoming a global citizen and more employable at the same time. Instead of automatically assuming that gap years are a 'good thing', this book critically considers how this contemporary rite of passage could contribute to the reproduction of structural disadvantage at both a national and international level in relation to young people's routes into education and employment, and representations of difference and distinction in cultural practices. The key argument running throughout the book is that well-established ways of thinking about and understanding the world are used to frame gap year experiences, including how other people and places are different; the influence of class in determining what has cultural value; and what sort of identity work is worthwhile. Gap years are located at a point where a number of fields overlap: education, employment and the consumption of leisure travel. A Cosmopolitan Journey? will therefore be of interest to students, academics and practitioners in these areas.
A Cosmopolitan Journey?
Author: Helene Snee
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317188624
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Does travel broaden the mind? This book explores this question through an innovative sociological study of gap year travel. Taking a year out overseas between school and university is an increasingly legitimate practice for young people in the UK. But what do young people get out of gap years? A wide range of 'official' sources acknowledge gap years as a way of becoming a global citizen and more employable at the same time. Instead of automatically assuming that gap years are a 'good thing', this book critically considers how this contemporary rite of passage could contribute to the reproduction of structural disadvantage at both a national and international level in relation to young people's routes into education and employment, and representations of difference and distinction in cultural practices. The key argument running throughout the book is that well-established ways of thinking about and understanding the world are used to frame gap year experiences, including how other people and places are different; the influence of class in determining what has cultural value; and what sort of identity work is worthwhile. Gap years are located at a point where a number of fields overlap: education, employment and the consumption of leisure travel. A Cosmopolitan Journey? will therefore be of interest to students, academics and practitioners in these areas.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317188624
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Does travel broaden the mind? This book explores this question through an innovative sociological study of gap year travel. Taking a year out overseas between school and university is an increasingly legitimate practice for young people in the UK. But what do young people get out of gap years? A wide range of 'official' sources acknowledge gap years as a way of becoming a global citizen and more employable at the same time. Instead of automatically assuming that gap years are a 'good thing', this book critically considers how this contemporary rite of passage could contribute to the reproduction of structural disadvantage at both a national and international level in relation to young people's routes into education and employment, and representations of difference and distinction in cultural practices. The key argument running throughout the book is that well-established ways of thinking about and understanding the world are used to frame gap year experiences, including how other people and places are different; the influence of class in determining what has cultural value; and what sort of identity work is worthwhile. Gap years are located at a point where a number of fields overlap: education, employment and the consumption of leisure travel. A Cosmopolitan Journey? will therefore be of interest to students, academics and practitioners in these areas.
A Cosmopolitan Journey?
Author: Helene Snee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781315564579
Category : Cosmopolitanism
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781315564579
Category : Cosmopolitanism
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
The Cosmopolitan
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Goldthwaite's Geographical Magazine
Author: Cyrus Cornelius Adams
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
Book Description
Vignettes of Travel
Author: William Wilberforce Nevin
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Travel and Talk, 1885-93-95
Author: Hugh Reginald Haweis
Publisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Primitive Travel and Transportation
Author: Otis Tufton Mason
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Appletons' Hand-book of American Travel
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Category : Salt Lake City (Utah)
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Salt Lake City (Utah)
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Harper & Brothers' Descriptive List of Their Publications
Author: Harper and brothers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
Book Description