The adolescent years
Subtitle: social influences and educational challenges
By: edited by Kathryn Borman and Barbara Schneider.
Contributors: Borman, Kathryn M.; Schneider, Barbara L.; National Society for the Study of Education.
Series: Ninety-seventh yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education,; pt. 1; Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education ;; 97th, pt. 1.
Publisher: NSSE; Distributed by the University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Adolescence.; Teenagers -- Education.; Social influence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Section one: setting the context. Stress and resilience in adolescence : an evolutionary perspective / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Jennifer Sschmidt; title: Identity formation in adolescence / Dena Phillips Swanson, Margaret Beale Spencer, and Anne Petersen; title: Growing up female / Ellen B. Kimmel with Tricia Rudolph; title: Adolescent sons and daughters of immigrants : how schools can respond / Margarita Calderón. Section two: institutional and social supports for youth. How secondary schools contribute to academic success / Fred M. Newmann; title: Learning contexts beyond the classroom : extracurricular activities, community organizations, and peer groups / B. Bradford Brown and Wendy Theobald; title: Social institutions serving adolescents / Chandra Muller and Michelle Frisco; title: Working : perceptions and experiences of American teenagers / Charles Bidwell, Barbara Schneider, and Kathryn Borman; title: Adolescent part-time work and educational achievement / Jeylan T. Mortimer and Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson; title: Making the transition from high school : recent trends and policies / David Lee Stevenson, Julie Kochanek, and Barbara Schneider.