Adolescent Cultures, School & Society – serie
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55 produkter
Making Schools Work
Negotiating Educational Meaning and Transforming the Margins
Av Carolyn R. Hodges, Olga Welch m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
226 kr
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When talking about marginality and «otherness», one must always ask, marginal to what? Other to whom? Complex issues of identity construction have been the focus of research on students who, whether based on race, gender, class, or ability, define themselves or are defined as being on the margins …
Mind Fields
Adolescent Consciousness in a Culture of Distraction
Av Thomas J. Cottle, Joseph L. DeVitis m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
419 kr
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In Mind Fields, Thomas J. Cottle argues that the period known as adolescence is essentially a social construct influenced greatly by popular culture. To understand young people, therefore, is to recognize how the very consciousness of adolescents is shaped by a culture, dominated by the …
Voices from the Margins
The Stories of Vocational High School Students
Av Jane P. Nagle, Joseph L. DeVitis m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
592 kr
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Voices from the Margins is an examination of the school experiences of twenty working-class students in vocational high schools. Recognizing the complexity and the significance of these school participants’ experiences enriches our understanding of the hierarchical distribution of power structures …
‘Dropping Out’, Drifting Off, Being Excluded
Becoming Somebody Without School
Häftad, 2004
404 kr
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This book deals with one of the most urgent, damaging, and complex issues affecting young lives and contemporary society in general – the escalating high school dropout rate. Though against the wishes of teachers and school administrators, young people’s decision to leave school is usually made …
Culture and Context in Human Behavior Change
Theory, Research, and Applications
Av Clifford R. O'Donnell, Lois A. Yamauchi
Häftad, 2005
332 kr
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This book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on theory, research, and applications in human behavior change. Chapters from clinical, developmental, and community psychology and education are united by common principles and an emphasis on culture and context. The contributions of Roland Tharp …
Teachers in the Middle
Reclaiming the Wasteland of the Adolescent Years of Schooling
Av John Smyth, Peter McInerney m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
410 kr
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There is a profound and deepening crisis afflicting secondary schools in most parts of the world – but at its essence it is a crisis of a very different kind from the one portrayed by the media, the business community, politicians, and policy makers. Just what constitutes the crisis is highly …
Ethnicity Matters
Rethinking How Black, Hispanic, and Indian Students Prepare for and Succeed in College
Häftad, 2006
320 kr
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Ethnicity Matters – Rethinking How Black, Hispanic, and Indian Students Prepare for and Succeed in College focuses on four model programs that are highly effective in preparing students from underrepresented groups for college and in supporting these students through baccalaureate degree …
Corporate Assault on Youth
Commercialism, Exploitation, and the End of Innocence
Av Deron Boyles
Häftad, 2008
407 kr
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The Corporate Assault on Youth examines childhood as a social construction increasingly influenced by corporations and commercialism. Through case studies, critical analysis, and historical/philosophical research, the essays collected here expose the degree to which children are unwitting targets …
Critically Engaged Learning
Connecting to Young Lives
Av John Smyth, Lawrence Angus m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
535 kr
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This book – the finale in a trilogy by the authors – traces the way in which a number of disadvantaged schools and communities were able to move beyond deficit, victim-blaming and pathologizing approaches and access resources of trust, relationships, connectedness and hope. It describes how these …
Critically Engaged Learning
Connecting to Young Lives
Av John Smyth, Lawrence Angus m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1581 kr
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This book – the finale in a trilogy by the authors – traces the way in which a number of disadvantaged schools and communities were able to move beyond deficit, victim-blaming and pathologizing approaches and access resources of trust, relationships, connectedness and hope. It describes how these …
Adolescent Education
A Reader
Av Joseph L. DeVitis, Linda Irwin-DeVitis
Inbunden, 2010
1565 kr
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Written by a prominent array of scholars and practitioners, this book elucidates the complexities, contradictions, and confusion surrounding adolescence in American culture and education. For too long, harmful public myths and lies have portrayed teenagers as a principal cause of our nation’s …
Boys’ Bodies
Speaking the Unspoken
Av Michael Kehler, Michael Atkinson
Häftad, 2010
437 kr
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The chapters in this edited collection examine how the culture of masculinity intersects with issues of health, homophobia, and the suppression and silencing of anxieties about body image among men and boys. Examining the bodily dividends and trade-offs associated with male participation in …
‘Hanging in with Kids’ in Tough Times
Engagement in Contexts of Educational Disadvantage in the Relational School
Av John Smyth, Barry Down m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
362 kr
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This book brings a unique, innovative and refreshing perspective to one of the most protracted issues affecting young lives – disengagement from schooling. Rather than continuing to blame young people, as most educational policies do, this book examines disengagement from the vantage point of the …
Re-engaging Disconnected Youth
Transformative Learning through Restorative and Social Justice Education
Av Amy Vatne Bintliff, Joseph L. DeVitis m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
515 kr
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As many young adults continue to disengage with learning each day, teachers and administrators struggle to find programming that re-engages secondary students with their schooling and communities. This book profiles one program that succeeds in doing so, and should serve as a model for others. In a …
Re-engaging Disconnected Youth
Transformative Learning through Restorative and Social Justice Education
Inbunden, 2011
1148 kr
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As many young adults continue to disengage with learning each day, teachers and administrators struggle to find programming that re-engages secondary students with their schooling and communities. This book profiles one program that succeeds in doing so, and should serve as a model for others. In a …
Teaching History to Adolescents
A Quest for Relevance
Häftad, 2011
419 kr
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This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.Teaching History to Adolescents: A Quest for Relevance is an exploration of research, ideas, trends, and practices for educators who teach American history to adolescents from the middle grades …
Teaching History to Adolescents
A Quest for Relevance
Av John A. Beineke, Joseph L. DeVitis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1662 kr
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This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.Teaching History to Adolescents: A Quest for Relevance is an exploration of research, ideas, trends, and practices for educators who teach American history to adolescents from the middle grades …
Strong Community Service Learning
Philosophical Perspectives
Inbunden, 2011
1431 kr
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This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.Community Service Learning (CSL) is, potentially, the most powerful and far-reaching educational reform movement in recent memory. Yet, that potential has yet to be realized. One major reason for …
Pervasive Vulnerabilities
Sexual Harassment in School
Av Regina Rahimi, Delores D. Liston
Inbunden, 2011
1539 kr
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Pervasive Vulnerabilities explores the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of adolescent girls and boys and female teachers in order to expose the continuing persistence of sexual harassment in the United States. The book addresses the sexual double standard that continues to hold girls and women …
From Silent Witnesses to Active Agents
Student Voice in Re-engaging with Learning
Av John Smyth, Peter McInerney
Häftad, 2012
419 kr
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Although they are typically viewed as silent witnesses in schools during the worldwide infatuation with school reform, this book, in fact, reveals young people to be active agents with something worthwhile to say about their schooling and what might be done to make learning more exciting and …
Hip-Hop(e)
The Cultural Practice and Critical Pedagogy of International Hip-Hop
Av Brad J. Portfilio, Michael J. Viola
Häftad, 2012
453 kr
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This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award.Illuminating hip-hop as an important cultural practice and a global social movement, this collaborative project highlights the emancipatory messages and cultural work generated by the organic intellectuals …
Hip-Hop(e)
The Cultural Practice and Critical Pedagogy of International Hip-Hop
Av Brad J. Portfilio, Michael J. Viola
Inbunden, 2012
1395 kr
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This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award.Illuminating hip-hop as an important cultural practice and a global social movement, this collaborative project highlights the emancipatory messages and cultural work generated by the organic intellectuals …
Invisible Girls
At Risk Adolescent Girls’ Writing Within and Beyond School
Häftad, 2012
404 kr
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Invisible Girls is an examination of twenty-four at-risk adolescent girls’ writing practices in a Third Space setting located within a school but outside of the confines of a regular classroom. Through a description of the girls’ writing over a three-and-a-half-year period in this setting, Mellinee …
Invisible Girls
At Risk Adolescent Girls’ Writing Within and Beyond School
Inbunden, 2012
1436 kr
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Invisible Girls is an examination of twenty-four at-risk adolescent girls’ writing practices in a Third Space setting located within a school but outside of the confines of a regular classroom. Through a description of the girls’ writing over a three-and-a-half-year period in this setting, Mellinee …
Persistent Reformer
Jonathan Kozol’s Work to Promote Equality in America
Häftad, 2012
332 kr
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Jonathan Kozol has been a leading educational critic and social activist since 1967 when Death at an Early Age, his book about racism in Boston’s schools, was published and won a National Book Award. Since then, Kozol has written eleven more books which focus on such issues as segregation in …
Persistent Reformer
Jonathan Kozol’s Work to Promote Equality in America
Inbunden, 2012
1494 kr
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Jonathan Kozol has been a leading educational critic and social activist since 1967 when Death at an Early Age, his book about racism in Boston’s schools, was published and won a National Book Award. Since then, Kozol has written eleven more books which focus on such issues as segregation in …
Contemporary Colleges and Universities
A Reader
Häftad, 2013
623 kr
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Today’s colleges and universities face countless uncharted challenges and possibilities. They are often prized as national treasures, yet, in tough economic times, they are becoming a major focus of contestation and controversy. This richly comprehensive survey takes a frank look at both polarities …
Contemporary Colleges and Universities
A Reader
Inbunden, 2013
2448 kr
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Today’s colleges and universities face countless uncharted challenges and possibilities. They are often prized as national treasures, yet, in tough economic times, they are becoming a major focus of contestation and controversy. This richly comprehensive survey takes a frank look at both polarities …
Not a Stage!
A Critical Re-Conception of Young Adolescent Education
Inbunden, 2012
2796 kr
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Not a Stage! is written for teachers, students, and scholars interested in the academic, social, and emotional needs of young adolescents. It is unique because it actively resists basing the practice, research, and theory of young adolescent education on developmentalism and the developmental stage …
Not a Stage!
A Critical Re-Conception of Young Adolescent Education
Häftad, 2012
453 kr
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Not a Stage! is written for teachers, students, and scholars interested in the academic, social, and emotional needs of young adolescents. It is unique because it actively resists basing the practice, research, and theory of young adolescent education on developmentalism and the developmental stage …
