Pathways to Adulthood
An International Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme for the Comparative Study of Productive Youth Development.
The mission of this collaborative programme is to stimulate innovative, interdisciplinary, and comparative research of productive youth development.
Participating institutions
Our participating institutions include IOE, the Universities of California, Michigan State, Stockholm, Helsinki, Jena, and Tubingen.
Background
Our programme is funded by the Jacobs Foundation and runs from October 2008 - September 2017.
Objectives
The major objective of the programme is to promote the next generation of researchers and facilitate a better understanding and discourse with different stake holders about how to equip young people for mastering the challenges of growing up in a changing social context.
What we do
PATHWAYS investigates the antecedents, processes, and long-term outcomes of youth transitions, as well as the factors and processes promoting human competences, especially among young people deemed to be at-risk.
Our training and mentoring enhance understanding of diverse approaches to the study of productive youth development and to engages in constructive debates with colleagues from different disciplines.
We foster international and interdisciplinary research and exchange of ideas, in order to gain up-to-date skills for addressing research and policy questions that require combined approaches and a synergy of ideas.
Find out more
Participating institutions
- IOE
PI: Prof. Ingrid Schoon, PATHWAYS Programme Director - University of Michigan
PI: Prof. Jacque Eccles - Michigan State University
PI: Barbara Schneider - University of Jena
PI: Prof. Rainer Silbereisen - University of Tubingen
PI: Ulrich Trautwein - University of Helsinki
PI: Katariina Salmela-Aro - University of Stockholm
PI: Prof. Lars Bergman
Newsletters
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Issue 11 of Pathfinder focuses on variations in the transition to adulthood and passion for activities.
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Issue 10 of Pathfinder focuses on studies examining the role of parenting in shaping young people's civic engagement and their adaption to racial discrimination and neighbourhood problems
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This issue of Pathfinder looks at the role of values and goal engagement regarding career related outcomes in times of growing economic and occupational uncertainty
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Issue 8 of Pathfinder is a special issue looking at the research of our Pathways Fellows
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Issue 7 of Pathfinder focuses on studies examining the association between motivation, academic attainment, and student wellbeing.
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This issue of Pathfinder features two studies that used evidence from PISA to examine trends in academic performance over time and the linkage between school tracking and students academic self concept.
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In this issue of Pathfinder we focus on the antecedents and processes of becoming an entrepreneur.
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In this edition of Pathfinder we look at students aspirations and expectations for the future.
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In this third edition of Pathfinder we look at the topic of school engagement using studies from the US, Finland and the UK.
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In this issue we discuss the role of aspirations, gender and ambition in later social status and earning; and a gender comparison of task values.
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In this first issue of Pathfinder we look at the effects of globalization, school burnout and school motivation.
People
Principal Investigators
- Lars Bergman
- Jacque Eccles
- Katariina Salmela-Aro
- Barbara Schneider
- Ingrid Schoon
- Rainer Silbereisen
- Ulrich Trautwein
Post-doctoral Fellows
- Jake Anders
- Hanna Gaspard
- Richard Göllner
- Soobin Kim
- Terry Ng Knight
- Maria Pavlova
- Nayssan Safavian
- Florencia Sortheix
Fellow Alumni
- Håkan Andersson
- Julie Ashby
- Meeta Banerjee
- Miia Bask
- Justin Bruner
- Jenna Cambria
- Anna K Chmielewski
- Angela Chow
- Elizabeth (Covay) Minor
- Anna-Lena Dicke
- Julia Dietrich
- Kathryn Isdale (nee Duckworth)
- John Jerrim
- Dylan Kneale
- Clemens Lechner
- Sointu Leikas
- Mark Lyons-Amos
- Julia Moeller
- Martin Obschonka
- Philip Parker
- Nicola Pensiero
- Lara Perez-Felkner
- Jaime Puccioni
- Sanna Read
- Jennifer Symonds
- Martin Tomasik
- Yi-Miau Tsai
- Heta Tuominen
- Katja Upadyaya
- Jaana Viljaranta
- Ming-Te Wang
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Contact us
Social Research Institute
IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
University College London
20 Bedford Way
London WC1H 0AL
