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Youth transitions and going to university: the perceptions of students attending a geography summer school access programme
Author(s) -
Hopkins Peter E
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2006.00691.x
Subject(s) - perception , citizen journalism , participatory action research , sociology , pedagogy , gender studies , geography , mathematics education , psychology , political science , anthropology , neuroscience , law
This paper contributes to understandings of youth transitions in childhood and youth geographies through the use of a participatory diagramming exercise with students studying geography in a summer school access programme at a Scottish university. In particular, the paper explores young people's perceptions about adult/child binaries and their hopes and fears in applying to university. The discussion highlights the extended nature of youth transitions: the usefulness of participatory diagramming as a research method and teaching technique for this group; and the consequences that the increasing interest in childhood and youth geographies might have on teaching and learning in human geography.