Adolescent education
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Joseph L. DeVitis, Linda Irwin-DeVitis.
Contributors: DeVitis, Joseph L.; Irwin-DeVitis, Linda.
Series: Adolescent cultures, school, and society -- v. 45
Publisher: P. Lang; Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9781433105043; 9781433105050
Subjects: Urban youth -- Education (Secondary) -- United States; Youth with social disabilities -- Education (Secondary) -- United States; African American youth -- Education (Secondary); Urban youth -- United States -- Social conditions
Description: Written by a prominent array of scholars and practitioners, this book elucidates the complexities, contradictions, and confusion surrounding adolescence in American culture and education. It traverses a nuanced, realistic path toward uncovering the developmental, socio-cultural realities faced by today's teenagers and provides rich pedagogical strategies, and educational wisdom for allowing adolescents to grow as worthy human beings. -- from Back Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Theoretical overview: adolescent culture and the culture of refusal / Brett Elizabeth Blake; title: Who is included in the urban family? / Katia Goldfarb; title: "Who you think I am is not necessarily who I think i am": the multiple positionalities of urban student identities / Rebecca A. Goldstein; title: Tween social and biological reproduction: early puberty in girls / Elizabeth Seaton; title: The body of evidence: dangerous intersections between development and culture in the lives of adolescent girls / Mary K. Bentley; title: Urban African American female students and educational resiliency / Venus Evans-Winters; title: Making a way out of no way: black male students at City High School / Garrett Albert Duncan & Ryonnel Jackson; title: Between a danger zone and a safe space: IGBTQ youth and the challenge of democratic education / Dennis Carlson; title: What about adolescent curiosity and risk-taking? / Thomas G. Reio, Jr.; title: Understanding adolescent suicide: a psychological interpretation of developmental and contextual factors / Pedro R. Portes, Daya S. Sandhu & Robert Longwell-Grice; title: Framing adolescents, their schools and culture: contested worldviews / Linda Irwin-Devitis; title: Stigma stories in the media: four discourses about teen mothers, welfare, and poverty / Deirdre M. Kelly; title: What does it mean to be in a gang? / Haroon Kharem; title: Would you like values with that?: chick-fil-a and character education / Deron Boyles; title: Implied adolescents and implied teachers: a generation gap for new times / Cynthia Lewis & Margaret Finders; title: Adolescent engagement, connectedness and dropping out of school / John Smyth; title: Overcoming negative school experiences of African-American adolescents: what school counselors can do to eradicate ethnocentrism / Dana Griffin & Julia Bryan; title: Why an undemocratic capitalism has brought public education to its knees / Richard A. Gibboney; title: Deferred but determined: a middle school manifesto / John H. Lounsbury; title: The ideal high school for future adolescents: a neo-Deweyan perspective / Douglas J. Simpson & Margaret Price; title: Beyond "written off": surviving and thriving through adolescent literacy / Dan Bauer, Linda Golson Bradley & Lindell Dillon; title: Urban youth engaging poetry and creating learning communities / Korina M. Jocson; title: Teaching history to adolescents / John A. Beineke; title: Critical civic literacy in schools: adolescents seeking to understand and improve the(ir) world / Kenneth Teitelbaum; title: Teaching students how to think critically: the Confederate flag controversy in the high school social studies curriculum / Susan L. Schramm-Pate & Richard Lussier; title: Urban success: a multidimensional mathematics approach with equitable outcomes / Jo Boaler; title: Making high school science instruction effective / Thomas R. Koballa, Jr. & Abdulkadir Demir; title: Teaching about global warming in truck country / Jana Dean; title: "If you're good at nothin', what are ya good for?": disability and identity / Melissa M. Jones; title: How important is technology in urban education? / Vanessa Domine; title: The new vocationalism: what it is, what it could be / W. Norton Grubb; title: Character education for adolescents: pedagogy of control / Tianlong Yu; title: An empowering, transformative approach to service / Jeff Claus & Curtis Ogden; title: The early college concept: building hope for students, parents, professionals, and community / Camille Daniel-Tyson & Lianna Nix; title: How can caring help?: a personalized cross-generational examination of violent adolescent experiences in schools / Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon; title: "I'm a person; i'm not dirt!": the impact of power relationships on perceptions of caring in a secondary classroom / Marcia Peck; title: Talks with teenagers and teachers / Nel Noddings.