Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools
Subtitle: Economic, Kinship, Religious, and Political Crosscurrents (Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Published: February 23, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780805846669
Subjects: Education; Students & Student Life; High school seniors; Education / Teaching; Sociological aspects; Social conditions; High schools; Developmental - Adolescent; Secondary; Education / Students & Student Life; Psychology & Psychiatry / Adolescent Psychology; United States; General; Case studies; Educational anthropology
First sentence: There are longstanding cultural assumptions in the United States that adolescent coming of age is fraught with difficulties and that public high schools often do not go far enough to ensure smooth passages to adulthood.