Youth Studies Abstracts. Vol. 4 No. 1.

Overview & Synopsis

This volume contains abstracts of 76 projects (most of which were conducted in Australia and New Zealand) concerned with programs for youth and with social and educational developments affecting youth. The abstracts are arranged in the following two categories: (1) Social and Educational Developments: Policy, Analysis, Research; and (2) Programs: Reports, Reviews, Evaluation. Summarized in the individual sections of the collection are projects dealing with the following topics: aborigines; adolescence; career education and counseling; education (funding, participation, participation and equity programs, and rural education); education and training; employment (cooperatives and job creation); family; girls and women; International Youth Year; migrant youth and ethnic groups; schools and schooling (curriculum development and languages in schools); social change; students; technical and further education; youth issues (employment, health, housing and accommodation, income support, institutional care, issues, policies, research, services, teenage pregnancy, transition to adulthood, and views and attitudes); and youth work and workers. Each abstract includes information on the source of the document and a summary of its contents. Subject and author indexes are provided. (MN)