This book studies a group of young people as they move through their final year of mandatory schooling and into their first year of post-16 experience. It suggests ways forward for a more inclusive post-16 education and training system.

Chapter 1 Landscapes of Choice – Horizons for Action; Chapter 2 The Research and the Young People: Working in the ‘Ruins’; Chapter 3 Making and Escaping Identity, Amma, Michael, Amma, Rena, Delisha; Chapter 4 At Risk of Social Exclusion, Debra, Ayesha; Chapter 5 Learning Fatigue, ‘Choice Biographies’ and Leisure, Aaron, Lucy, Anne; Chapter 6 In a Glass of Their Own; Chapter 7 Just ‘Ordinary’ Young Men, Luke, Jordan; Chapter 8 Lost in Time and Space? ‘Drafting’ a Life – ‘Just’ and ‘Not Yet’, Fiona, Jolene, Daryl, Warren; Chapter 9 Futures on ‘Hold’, Gabrielle, Gillian, Carlene, Mehalet; Chapter 10 Constructing New Futures in the ‘New Economies’?, Rees, Wayne; Chapter 11 Themes and Issues and ‘Overburdened Representations’;