Adolescent Lives in Transition
Subtitle: How Social Class Influences the Adjustment to Middle School
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780791460368
Subjects: Primary / junior schools; Social classes; Students & Student Life; Middle schools; Education / Teaching; Sociological aspects; Education; USA; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Educational Psychology; Secondary; United States; 21st century; Case studies; Middle school students; Social conditions
Description: "Addressing the issues of educational equity and social class diversity, Donna Marie San Antonio documents the challenges adolescents face when making the transition from elementary school to middle school. The book explorers the values, resources, and ways of interacting that students from diverse economic backgrounds bring from their families and communities, and how they are enabled or discouraged from integrating these assets in their new school environments."--Jacket.