Choosing Post-Secondary Vocational Education Pathways: Narratives of Young Adults with Previous System Involvement.
Extensive policy and practice attention aims to support young people as they seek to achieve educational and career goals yet there are widely varying trajectories toward these goals that reflect individual preferences and social inequalities. This study reports findings from qualitative interviews...
| Publicado en: | Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 71 - 84 |
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