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Article: Making Modern Lives: Subjectivity, Schooling and Social Change.(Book review)
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- Australian Journal of Education
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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Making Modern Lives: subjectivity, schooling and social change
Julie McLeod and Lyn Yates New York: State University of New York Press, 2006, ISBN 0 791 467 686
This book was a pleasure for me to read and review. Despite some minor publishing annoyances, the book is interesting and engaging. The authors have produced a reflective account of the experience of growing up in one state of Australia, and an analysis of the meanings we might make from these accounts.
The analysis is based on data collected from longitudinal interviews, spanning approximately seven years, with students in several secondary schools. Many of the authors' insights, and ...