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Specific tips on acquiring self management skills applicable to school and work activities. ... Read more

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For young adults, this is an excellent intoduction to self management!
This book is targetted primarily at young adults. It provides an excellent introduction to the concept of self management, which is a very important skill to acquire for peak performance & success in school, in work activities & ultimately, in life.

Selfmanagement, as the book explains, involves the following steps:

- taking personal responsibility for all your choices, decisions & actions,;
- setting goals in all areas of your life;
- prioritising & scheduling all your activites;
- checking, monitoring & evaluating your progress toward goal achievment;

There are only 64 pages in this book. Hence you can read it very quickly. However, at the end of each chapter (there are seven) the author has systematically posed the reader with some review/reflection questions. These questions have been crafted for the reader to think through the steps prior to personal application. I always enjoy reading books with questions like these.

My only complaint about this book is that the photographs used in this book, some of which are in black & white, are very dull indeed. Even the colour photograph on the front cover is visually disappointing. In today's internet age, the publisher could have done a much better job here.

Nevertheless, the author has provided a useful resource bibliography at the end of the book. They are worth further reading &/or exploration by the reader. In this context, I would like to add that this book is actually part of a 10-book-The Learning-a-Living Library series. Among the many titles, I particularly enjoy reading & exploring the following: (which I may review separately):

- High Performance through Understanding Systems;
- High Performance through Leadership;
- High Performance through Effective Scheduling;
- High Performance through Organising Information;
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This participant-observation study presents the practice of school to work transition at two Japanese high schools, and explains variations about the modal career trajectory of "low achieving" students, drawing on Bourdieu's work. It helps to explain the relationship between social values, family ethos, industry, school and economic performance, and the relatively low class consciousness in Japan. It should be of interest to educationalists, sociologists and labour relations specialists studying Japan. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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Why do so many high school students drop out, and what are the consequences for the students, their families, and society in general? This work discusses answers to these questions, and examines topics dealing with the issues, policies, and problems associated with leaving school early. It looks at the reasons behind the decision to drop out, the labor market difficulties that dropouts face, the psychological experience of unemployment, the relationship between dropouts and various kinds of deviance, and the dropouts' own expectations about their futures. ... Read more

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...this how to manual is based on the premise that all youth require & deserve opportunities to participate in school-to-work transition programsthat provide them with a more meaningful education... ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This is an ethnographic research study on the transition from school to work (TSW) experiences of nine Form Five school-leavers in Malaysia who possess different academic abilities and who came from different family and ethnic backgrounds. This study examines how they resolve the work-study dilemma as well as how they made their career choices, indicating that career decisions are linked to the culture and identities of the subjects. In this book, the author endeavors to bring to attention the subjects' experiences as they navigate their way through the social structures that confront them throughout this transitional period. Through the descriptions of their life stories and experiences, he seeks to highlight the dilemmas faced by the young men as well as the often difficult and painful process of decision-making in their TSW. Attention has also been drawn to the structural constraints that they encounter and also the resources and strategies they employ to deal with these constraints.From the study, it is evident that differences in the resources available to the young men is critical in bringing about differences among them with regard to their higher education as well as their employment opportunities. ... Read more

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Making gender a central concern in the analysis of work and schooling, this book explores the way young men and women experience and account for the relations between school and work and analyzes the way schooling and work have been organized by patterns of gender and class inequality. ... Read more