Making Modern Lives -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Modern Lives, Subjectivity, Schooling, and Social Change -- 2. Researching Subjectivity and Schooling-On Method and What It Means to Work with Theory -- 3. What Is a Good Student? -- 4. Becoming Someone as Project and as Process -- 5. Dreams and Pathways: Identity- Making and Vocational Choices -- 6. Who Is "Us"? Australian Students on Politics, Racism, Ethnicity, and Unemployment -- 7. Class in the New World and the New Economy -- 8. Gender Themes in a Changing World -- 9. Schooling, Schooling Politics, and Making Modern Lives -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2a Summary of Pathways -- Appendix 2b Who Got What-School Contrasts -- Appendix 2c: Future Daydreams and Plans -- Notes -- References -- Index.