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The New Risktakers

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Education and the Risk Society

Part of the book series: Contexts of Education ((CONT,volume 5))

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I live in California in an oceanside county on the remote northern coast. In the summer, clusters of cyclists take on the challenging trip from Oregon into California and then down Highway 1, the coastal highway that runs the length of California. The northern stretch of this highway on which I live runs along the ocean edge for more than a hundred miles. Cycling this stretch is risky, for wind and fog come unexpectedly, and campers and trailers as well as heavily loaded logging trucks take up more than their half of the narrow two-lane highway. The breath-taking route takes cyclists through redwood forests and open range pastures and along high bluffs rising 300 feet or more above the crashing waves of the Pacific Ocean.

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  1. Margery Bailey Professor of English and Dramatic Literature Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, Emerita Stanford University, US

    Shirley Brice Heath

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Heath, S.B. (2012). The New Risktakers. In: Education and the Risk Society. Contexts of Education, vol 5. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-961-9_14

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