Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > The gap year for geographers

Research

Associated organisational units

Electronic data

Links

Keywords

View graph of relations

The gap year for geographers: effects and paradoxes

Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

Published

Standard

The gap year for geographers: effects and paradoxes. / Blackburn, Alan; Clark, Gordon; Pilgrim, David.
In: Geography, Vol. 90, No. 1, 2005, p. 32-41.

Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

Harvard

Blackburn, A, Clark, G & Pilgrim, D 2005, 'The gap year for geographers: effects and paradoxes', Geography, vol. 90, no. 1, pp. 32-41. <http://www.geography.org.uk/Journals/Journals.asp?articleID=71>

APA

Blackburn, A., Clark, G., & Pilgrim, D. (2005). The gap year for geographers: effects and paradoxes. Geography, 90(1), 32-41. http://www.geography.org.uk/Journals/Journals.asp?articleID=71

Vancouver

Blackburn A, Clark G, Pilgrim D. The gap year for geographers: effects and paradoxes. Geography. 2005;90(1):32-41.

Author

Blackburn, Alan ; Clark, Gordon ; Pilgrim, David. / The gap year for geographers : effects and paradoxes. In: Geography. 2005 ; Vol. 90, No. 1. pp. 32-41.

Bibtex

@article{d05724ae18ce466183fc862626bc8168,
title = "The gap year for geographers: effects and paradoxes",
abstract = "This paper examines why the growing gap-year phenomenon is important for university geography departments in the context of education and employment. The research examines the scale and types of gap years, and their effects on students. The study uses a multi-actor approach comprising information from national statistical sources, university departments, students who have taken gap years and commercial gap-year providers. The paper draws some lessons for geography departments such as the need to systematically record the effects of a gap year. It highlights some paradoxes of any expansion of the gap-year market; for example, that expansion may reduce the benefits of the gap-year experience and may narrow the types of gap year taken. Issues of social exclusion also arise.",
keywords = "geography, gap year, inclusion, exclusion",
author = "Alan Blackburn and Gordon Clark and David Pilgrim",
year = "2005",
language = "English",
volume = "90",
pages = "32--41",
journal = "Geography",
publisher = "Geographical Association",
number = "1",

}

RIS

TY - JOUR

T1 - The gap year for geographers

T2 - effects and paradoxes

AU - Blackburn, Alan

AU - Clark, Gordon

AU - Pilgrim, David

PY - 2005

Y1 - 2005

N2 - This paper examines why the growing gap-year phenomenon is important for university geography departments in the context of education and employment. The research examines the scale and types of gap years, and their effects on students. The study uses a multi-actor approach comprising information from national statistical sources, university departments, students who have taken gap years and commercial gap-year providers. The paper draws some lessons for geography departments such as the need to systematically record the effects of a gap year. It highlights some paradoxes of any expansion of the gap-year market; for example, that expansion may reduce the benefits of the gap-year experience and may narrow the types of gap year taken. Issues of social exclusion also arise.

AB - This paper examines why the growing gap-year phenomenon is important for university geography departments in the context of education and employment. The research examines the scale and types of gap years, and their effects on students. The study uses a multi-actor approach comprising information from national statistical sources, university departments, students who have taken gap years and commercial gap-year providers. The paper draws some lessons for geography departments such as the need to systematically record the effects of a gap year. It highlights some paradoxes of any expansion of the gap-year market; for example, that expansion may reduce the benefits of the gap-year experience and may narrow the types of gap year taken. Issues of social exclusion also arise.

KW - geography

KW - gap year

KW - inclusion

KW - exclusion

M3 - Journal article

VL - 90

SP - 32

EP - 41

JO - Geography

JF - Geography

IS - 1

ER -