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
Portugal
Ana Mouraz
Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto
Vol. Extr., núm. 14 (2015) - XIII CIG-PP, XIII Congreso Internacional G-P de Psicopedagogía. Área 14: TRANSICIONES Y DESARROLLO A LO LARGO DE LA VIDA, pages 019-023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/reipe.2015.0.14.313
Submitted: Apr 30, 2015 Accepted: Aug 19, 2015 Published: Dec 11, 2015
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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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Gap Year, Transition, Personal Development, College

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