Sofie Pedersen is Associate Professor of Psychology at Roskilde University, Denmark.

This book is an excellent and original application of ecological psychology to developmental theory, dynamically describing from first-person perspective what institutional and interpersonal affordances surrounding high school students encourage and discourage them to do, and how they grow as they respond to them.

• Series Editor’s IntroductionIntroduction1. Setting the Scene: Invitations and Expectations2. Becoming High School Students: Entering New Activity Settings, Case Study 1: Anna, Mia and Lisa 3. Becoming High School Students: Entering New Activity Settings Case Study 2: Emily and Matilda4. Eco-niche Variability: The Meaning of Where Youth Life is Lived5. Standardizing the Body: A Social Negotiation of the Meaning of Health6. Exploring Subjective Processes of Transformation: “Maybe I have changed; I didn’t notice it”7. Negotiating Self Within a Multitude of Invitations and Possibilities8. Interweaving Analytical ThreadsConclusionReferences Index

Sofie Pedersen is Associate Professor of Psychology at Roskilde University, Denmark.

This book is an excellent and original application of ecological psychology to developmental theory, dynamically describing from first-person perspective what institutional and interpersonal affordances surrounding high school students encourage and discourage them to do, and how they grow as they respond to them.

• Series Editor’s IntroductionIntroduction1. Setting the Scene: Invitations and Expectations2. Becoming High School Students: Entering New Activity Settings, Case Study 1: Anna, Mia and Lisa 3. Becoming High School Students: Entering New Activity Settings Case Study 2: Emily and Matilda4. Eco-niche Variability: The Meaning of Where Youth Life is Lived5. Standardizing the Body: A Social Negotiation of the Meaning of Health6. Exploring Subjective Processes of Transformation: “Maybe I have changed; I didn’t notice it”7. Negotiating Self Within a Multitude of Invitations and Possibilities8. Interweaving Analytical ThreadsConclusionReferences Index

Sofie Pedersen is Associate Professor of Psychology at Roskilde University, Denmark.

This book is an excellent and original application of ecological psychology to developmental theory, dynamically describing from first-person perspective what institutional and interpersonal affordances surrounding high school students encourage and discourage them to do, and how they grow as they respond to them.

• Series Editor’s IntroductionIntroduction1. Setting the Scene: Invitations and Expectations2. Becoming High School Students: Entering New Activity Settings, Case Study 1: Anna, Mia and Lisa 3. Becoming High School Students: Entering New Activity Settings Case Study 2: Emily and Matilda4. Eco-niche Variability: The Meaning of Where Youth Life is Lived5. Standardizing the Body: A Social Negotiation of the Meaning of Health6. Exploring Subjective Processes of Transformation: “Maybe I have changed; I didn’t notice it”7. Negotiating Self Within a Multitude of Invitations and Possibilities8. Interweaving Analytical ThreadsConclusionReferences Index