Zusammenfassung This compelling volume focuses on what it is like to be young in the rapidly changing! enormously diverse world region that is early 21st century Europe.

Inhalt

Young Europeans in a Changing World (Manuela du Bois-Reymond, Lynne Chisholm) The volume's editors set this collection into the framework of a rapidly changing Europe and introduce the individual chapters. 2. European Youth Research: Development, Debates, Demands (Lynne Chisholm) This opening contribution analyzes the emergence and character of youth research within the sociopolitical context of European integration processes. 3. Learning in Times of Modernization (Sven Morch, Manuela du Bois-Reymond) The writers take a close look at changing relationships between education and learners in light of the demands and consequences of modernization. 4. Redefining the Future: Youthful Biographical Constructions in the 21st Century (Carmen Leccardi) Young people's life planning and life rhythms take on a more contingent and open-ended quality as the concepts of time and space change. 5. Social Change, Family Support, and Young Adults in Europe (Andrew Biggart, Siyka Kovacheva) When the welfare state cuts back support for young people in the transition to adulthood, their families must shoulder heavier responsibilities. 6. Biography and Gender in Youth Transitions (Barbara Stauber) Young people's transitions to adulthood remain inescapably gendered so that constructing a life demands active biographical reflection within contradictions. 7. Transitions from School to Work in Europe: Destandardization and Policy Trends (Andreas Walther, Wim Plug) This final chapter depicts risks and breaches among education, training, and the labor market in the context of the policy measures developed to try to deal with these. INDEX.