The Booklet That ComplementsThe Emerging Millennials is Now Available!
People these days are inundated with information. Most of us want "bottom lines" on research findings and their significance, with the freedom to then pursue the details to the extent we want them.
With such needs in mind, Reginald Bibby and James Penner have released an important booklet that complements The Emerging Millennials. It zooms in on what the two researchers see as the ten key findings of the latest PTC national survey. In addition it offers leaders and others brief reflections on some of the implications and possible responses to each of the ten findings.
64-page colour booklet
highlights The Ten Key Findings of the latest national youth survey
4 page sections on each of the ten findings
photo and graphic lead-ins and illustrative data
summary observations and reflections on responses
A great resource for those wanting to know the heart of the research findings, and their significance for understanding youth
Contents
Preface............................................................................................................................................... 5 Background: Don’t believe everything you hear about teenagers!............................. 7 1.They're decent people ........................................................................................ 11 2.They love their friends and music......................................................................... 15 3.Their tech toys are new means to old ends............................................................ 19 4. They've said goodbye to the monoculture............................................................. 23 5. Their ties with parents are the best in decades...................................................... 27 6. They enjoy school – strain and all......................................................................... 31 7. Their quality of life is a solid upgrade.................................................................... 35 8. They're into relationships more than sex.............................................................. 39 9. They're morally flexible, but some things are no-no’s............................................. 43 10. They’re post-religious and pre-spiritual................................................................. 47
Conclusion: And are they ever buoyant about the future!......................................... 51 The Last Words................................................................................................ 55 Appendix.............................................................................................................................................. 57 Notes................................................................................................................................................... 58
The latest in Reginald Bibby's national youth surveys, Project Teen Canada 2008, was completed in late in 2008. The survey built on previous surveys completed in 1984, 1992, and 2000 that have produced unparalleled information on the evolving attitudes, beliefs, and behaviour of the country's young people. The findings have taken on additional value since they have complemented by parallel adult Project Canada surveys spanning 1975 through 2005. In addition, the 2008 survey sample included a special Aboriginal supplement of more than 600 students in band schools across the country. James Penner served as the associate director of the project. From the beginning, a primary goal has been to generate information on youth that is academically sound and shared widely with organizations and individuals that care about youth. The findings have subsequently become well-known to educators, the media, governments, corporations, health care workers, family organizations, religious groups, youth leaders, young people, and parents. The three books that have summarized and interpreted the findings (The Emerging Generation, 1985; Teen Trends, 1992; Canada’s Teens, 2001) have known wide readerships. Indicative of general interest in the program, the findings through the 2000 survey were featured as a cover story by Maclean’s (April 5, 2001). Beyond publications, Bibby and other survey personnel have travelled extensively across the country, sharing the findings and reflecting on their implications in a large and varied number of settings.
The 2008 survey provides an important update on Canadian youth that is particularly important in light of the dramatic changes in technology in recent years, and the ensuing impact on information and personal and collective life. As in the past, the sample consisted of some 3,500 young people between the ages of 15 and 19 who were in high school or its equivalents. Multi‑stage stratified and cluster sampling procedures were used to select one class in approximately 200 schools across the country. A carefully constructed questionnaire that took approximately 30 to 40 minutes to complete was filled out in classroom settings under the supervision of a guidance counsellor or a designated alternate.
The survey contributes to data on Canadian young people spanning almost 25 years – 1984 through 2008. Findings were shared first of all with the participating schools through the new book, The Emerging Millennials: How Canada's Newest Generation is Responding to Change and Choice,that was released in late April of 2009. A capsule of the key findings is available in the booklet, 10 Things We All Need to Know About Today's Teens, co-authored by Bibby and Penner. In addition, findings and releases on a number of topics are being made available free via both this website and the additional website, PTC08.COM. Still further, Project Teen Canada personnel, led by Bibby and Penner, will continue to make themselves available to explain and discuss the findings. As in the past, the survey has been greeted with considerable enthusiasm by a wide range of groups and individuals, led by educators, youth leaders, academics, and the media, along with parents and young people themselves.
The Companion Volume to The Emerging Millennials
Released in October of 2006, this is an important addition to Reginald Bibby’s bestselling books on social trends in Canada.
In The Boomer Factor, Bibby examines just what kind of country Boomers will be leaving behind. Drawing on his unparalleled series of national surveys of adults and teenagers spanning the years 1975 to 2005, he identifies ten important trends, including significant changes pertaining to: the pervasiveness of diversity, the decline of community, the rise in the desire for input, the new basis for decision-making, the new sense of time, and the information explosion. He also exposes myths about what people want, decreasing civility, conventional family aspirations, and the decline of religion.
Bibby offers provocative assessments of the implications of these patterns for social and personal well-being in Canada, in the process evaluating the Boomer legacy. He again displays his trademark ability to present important research findings in a journalistic and engaging style. The Boomer Factor has being greeted with much anticipation and enthusiasm, and already has received consideral national and regional media attention.
$22.95 softcover ISBN 0-9780554-4-6 246 pp – 6 x 9 Project Canada Books Lethbridge
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