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Voices of reason : adolescents talk about their futures over time

Based on a five-year study, this work uses excerpts from interviews to examine ten adolescents' reasoning or ""groundedness"" for choices they make about their future, and offers suggestions for improving guidance services
eBook, English, 2002
Bergin & Garvey, Westport, Conn., 2002
Life skills guides
1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages) : illustrations
9781429473026, 9780897898393, 1429473029, 0897898397
150420440
Preliminaries; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Theoretical Orientation; 3 The Great Orator; 4 Goes With the Wind; 5 Pulling Teeth; 6 A Balancing Act; 7 Getting the Job Done; 8 The Com passionate Communicator; 9 Two Voices; 10 Seeing Beyond the Talk; 11 Conclusion Implications for Research and Practice; Appendix 1 Selective Quantitative Findings from Early Questionnaire; Appendix 2 General Coding Categories; Appendix 3 Rules for Coding Future Talk; Appendix 4 Coder Instructions Coding Future Talk; Appendix 5 Interviewer Discourse Codes Examples Appendix 6 Discussion about Reliability and Validity in This StudyBibliography; Index
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