Dangerous adolescents, model adolescents : shaping the role and promise of education / Roger J.R. Levesque.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levesque, Roger J. R.

Series:

Perspectives in law & psychology ; v. 13.

Perspectives in law & psychology ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Secondary--Social aspects--United States.

Education, Secondary.

Teenagers--Education--Social aspects--United States.

Teenagers.

Problem children--Education--Social aspects--United States.

Problem children.

Educational law and legislation--United States.

Educational law and legislation.

Problem children--Education--Social aspects.

Problem children--Education.

Teenagers--Education.

Social aspects.

Education, Secondary--Social aspects.

United States.

Dangerous Behavior.

Adolescent.

Education.

Psychology, Adolescent.

Education--legislation & jurisprudence.

Social Values.

Medical Subjects:

Dangerous Behavior.

Adolescent.

United States.

Education.

Psychology, Adolescent.

Education--legislation & jurisprudence.

Social Values.

Physical Description:

xiii, 258 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum, [2002]

Summary:

This project is an attempt to understand what kind of environment today's adolescents need and what teachers, parents, and communities can do to address those needs. Further it examines how adolescents and their environments can best be supported to effect the outcomes and ideals our society promises but does not always deliver. In this it is not yet another attack on already maligned schools that produce impressive outcomes despite their limited resources, increased obligations, and the sustained barrage of attacks from competing interest groups.

Contents:

I. Developing Law to Educate Adolescents

Chapter 1. Education's Role in Fostering Adolescents 3

Schooling's Special Roles and Failures in Fostering Adolescents 4

A New Direction for Schools and Law Reform 9

Chapter 2. Law and the Development of Public Education 13

The Colonial Period 15

Colonial Educational Institutions 15

Law's Role in Educating Colonial Youth 19

The Post-Revolutionary "Common School" Period 23

Social Transformations in Adolescent Life 24

Legal Reforms and New Images of Adolescence 31

The Progressive Period 37

Social and Pedagogical Reforms 38

Legal Responses to Social Transformations 43

The Cosmopolitan Era 46

Social and Political Transformations and Educational Reforms 47

The Law's Move toward Regulating and Dismantling Public Schools 52

II. Challenges Facing Adolescents' Education

Chapter 3. Dangerous Adolescents 65

Adolescent Offenders and their Offenses 66

Nature of Offenses Deemed Worth Addressing 67

Characteristics of Adolescent Offenders 69

The Place of Schools in Addressing Adolescents' Offending 73

Control Measures 73

Curricular Responses 77

Community Influences 78

Dangerous Adolescents, Education and the Law 81

Constitutional Parameters 81

Legislative Mandates 88

State Mandates 100

Chapter 4. Model Adolescents 111

Model Adolescent Social Development 112

Nature of Social Values Deemed Worth Developing 113

Characteristics of Adolescents' Social Development and Model Social Orientations 115

Preliminary Conclusion 123

The Place of Schools in Fostering Model Social Development 124

Curricular Responses 124

Schools' Moral Climates 130

Model Social Development and the Law 135

Federal Constitutional Parameters 136

Federal Legislative Mandates 143

State Constitutional Mandates 144

State Legislative Mandates 146

Chapter 5. Thriving Adolescents 153

Adolescent Mental Health: Its Dysfunctions and Promotion 155

Mental Health Dysfunctions 156

Mental Health Promotion 159

Complexities and Peculiarities of the Adolescent Period 164

Distinctiveness of the Adolescent Period 165

Distinctiveness within the Adolescent Period 168

Schools' Roles in Promoting Mental Health 171

Mental Health Services 171

Curricular Programs 175

School Climates 178

Thriving, Education and the Law 181

Constitutional Parameters 182

Federal Legislation 189

State Legislation 190

III. Fostering Adolescents

Chapter 6. Ensuring the Promise of Education 201

The Needed Legal Response 202

Adopt Clear School Policies 203

Foster School Accountability 205

Support Familial Obligations 208

Link Students to Service-Providing Institutions 211

Necessity of Statutory Reform and Guidance 214

Responding to Possible Objections 219

Respecting Parental Rights 219

Reaching Private Schools 223.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-251) and index.

ISBN:

0306467674

OCLC:

49276338