Crossing the gap between high school and Higher Education: the Gap Year experience

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  • Lígia Araújo Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto
  • Ana Mouraz Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto

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https://doi.org/10.17979/reipe.2015.0.14.313

Keywords:

Gap Year, Transition, Personal Development, College

Abstract

At a time of a crucial decision making to their future many young people choose to step back from it and travel, explore the world, volunteering, learning about other cultures, postponing those decisions. In the moment between finish high school and enter higher education, they choose to take a Gap Year. Give the dimension of this experience and the moment in life it is made, maybe one’s can assume that the Gap Year boosts significantly the development of young people. This is the phenomenon that we intend to understand with this paper.

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References

Jones, Andrew (2004). Review of gap year provision. Research Report RR555. London: University of London.

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Published

2015-12-11

How to Cite

Araújo, L., & Mouraz, A. (2015). Crossing the gap between high school and Higher Education: the Gap Year experience. Revista De Estudios E Investigación En Psicología Y Educación, (14), 019–023. https://doi.org/10.17979/reipe.2015.0.14.313

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Vol. Extr., núm. 14 (2015) - XIII CIG-PP

Section

XIII Congreso Internacional G-P de Psicopedagogía. Área 14: TRANSICIONES Y DESARROLLO A LO LARGO DE LA VIDA

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