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Cline, Tony; Crafter, Sarah; de Abreu, Guida; O'Dell, Lindsay – Pastoral Care in Education, 2009
This paper reports key findings from a study of young people's engagement in "atypical" activities in their families. The project focused on young caring and language brokering as two roles that are not assumed to be "normal" activities for children and young people. The findings presented are from a survey of 1002 young people…
Descriptors: Family Needs, Adolescents, Participation, Role
Hobbs, Sandy; And Others – British Journal of Education and Work, 1996
Review of research over 2 decades suggests that two-thirds to three-quarters of British children have some experience of paid employment by the minimum school-leaving age (16). Recent studies in England and Scotland confirm that 2.2-2.6 million children worked at some time before age 16. (SK)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Labor, Children, Foreign Countries
Barling, Julian, Ed.; Kelloway, E. Kevin, Ed. – 1999
This book contains nine papers devoted to the psychological experience of youth employment and its role in shaping future employment experiences and expectations. "Introduction" (Julian Barling, E. Kevin Kelloway) emphasizes the diversity of young people as a group and the diversity of individual youth's employment experience. "The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Attitude Change