Publications

Below is a list of publications that draw on the Life Patterns Program. Some are available for download.

Books

Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future 2001

Dwyer, P. and Wyn, J.

Published by Routledge & Falmer (London)

ISBN 0 415 25778 6

Youth Research Centre Research Reports

A complete list of Youth Research Centre Research Reports, with synopses, can be found here.

Some reports are available as PDF downloadable files, and others can be purchased from the Youth Research Centre (order them here).

Generations and Social Change: Negotiating Adulthood in the 21st Century. Report on the Life-Patterns Research Program: 2005 - 2007
J Wyn, G Smith, H Stokes, D Tyler, D Woodman
Research Report 29; January 2008; 52pp
ISBN 9780 7340 3905 7  Full text available (pdf)

Immigrants in Time: Life-Patterns 2004
P Dwyer, G Smith, D Tyler, J Wyn
Research Report 27; May 2005; 72pp   
ISBN 0 7340 3033 9

Life-Patterns, Career Outcomes and Adult Choices: The Life-Patterns Study
P Dwyer, G Smith, D Tyler, J Wyn
Research Report 23; June 2003; 40pp     
ISBN 0 7340 2943 8   Full text available (pdf)

Journeying Through the Nineties: The Life Patterns Project 1991-2000
P Dwyer, D Tyler, J Wyn
Research Report 19; May 2001; 48pp     
ISBN 0 7340 2117 8  Full text available (pdf)

Life Patterns, Choices, Careers: 1991-1998
P Dwyer, A Harwood, D Tyler
Research Report 17; June 1998; 58pp     
ISBN 0 7340 1392 2

Participant Pathways and Outcomes in Vocational Education and Training 1992-1995
P Dwyer, A Harwood, G Poynter, D Tyler
Research Report 14; March 1997; 55pp       
ISBN 0 7325 1532 7

Other Monographs

Successful Longer-Term Career Outcomes for Vocational Education and Training Participants: 1992-9

Dwyer, P., Harwood, A., and Tyler, D

The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Leabrook, S.A, 2001 

ISBN 0 87397 764 5 (web edition)  Full text available (pdf)

Journal Articles

Wyn, J. and Dwyer, P. (2000) New Patterns of Youth Transition in Education, International Social Science Journal, 164, pp. 147-159.

Wyn, J. & Dwyer, P. (1999) New Directions in research on Youth in Transition, Journal of Youth Studies, 2(1), pp.5-21.

Dwyer, P and Wyn, J. (1998) Post-Compulsory Education Policy in Australia and its impact on Participant Pathways and Outcomes in the 1990s, Journal of Education Policy, 13(3), pp. 285-300.

Dwyer, P. & Wyn, J. (1998) A New Agenda: Changing Life-patterns of The Post-1970 Generation, International Bulletin of Youth Research, 17, pp. 27-34.

Wyn, J. (1998) The Post-1970s Generation, issues for researching young people in Australia today, Family Matters, Issue no. 49, pp. 44-46.

Dwyer, P. (1997) Outside the Educational Mainstream: Foreclosed Options in Youth Policy, in Discourse, vol 18, no 1, pp. 71-85

Dwyer, P. (1995) Disjuncture Between Pathways Policy and Student Outcomes: Experience of Early School Leavers, Australian Journal of Education, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 265-78

Book Chapters

Dwyer, P. & Wyn, J. (1998) Beyond the Linear Models, Pathways and Outcomes of 1991 Victorian exit students, in F. Ferrier & D. Anderson, (Eds), Different Drums, One Beat? Economic and Social Goals in Education and Training, Adelaide: National Centre for Vocational Education and Research and Monash University — ACER Centre for the Economics of Education and Training.

Wyn, J. (1998) Young people and the transition from school to work: New agendas in post-compulsory education and training, in J. Bessant & S. Cook, (Eds), Against the Odds, Young People and Work, Hobart: National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies.

Dwyer, P., Harwood, A., Poynter, G., & Wyn, J. (1997) Participant Pathways and Outcomes in Vocational Education and Training, in J. Kenway, K. Treganza, & P. Watkins, (Eds) Vocational Education Today, Topical Issues, Deakin: Deakin University Press.