Adolescent education : a reader / edited by Joseph L. DeVitis & Linda Irwin-DeVitis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeVitis, Joseph L.

Irwin-DeVitis, Linda

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Series:

Adolescent cultures, school & society ; v. 45.

Adolescent cultures, school & society, 1091-1464 ; v. 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban youth--Education (Secondary)--United States.

Urban youth.

Youth with social disabilities--Education (Secondary)--United States.

Youth with social disabilities.

African American youth--Education (Secondary).

African American youth.

Urban youth--United States--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Education, Secondary.

Youth with social disabilities--Education (Secondary).

United States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 506 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2010]

Contents:

Theoretical overview: adolescent culture and the culture of refusal / Brett Elizabeth Blake

Who is included in the urban family? / Katia Goldfarb

"Who you think I am is not necessarily who I think I am": the multiple positionalities of urban student identities / Rebecca A. Goldstein

Tween social and biological reproduction: early puberty in girls / Elizabeth Seaton

The body of evidence: dangerous intersections between development and culture in the lives of adolescent girls / Mary K. Bentley

Urban African American female students and educational resiliency / Venus Evans-Winters

Making a way out of no way: black male students at City High School / Garrett Albert Duncan & Ryonnel Jackson

Between a danger zone and a safe space: LGBTQ youth and the challenge of democratic education / Dennis Carlson

What about adolescent curiosity and risk taking? / Thomas G. Reio, Jr.

Understanding adolescent suicide: a psychological interpretation of developmental and contextual factors / Pedro R. Portes, Daya S. Sandhu, & Robert Longwell-Grice

Framing adolescents, their schools and culture: contested worldviews / Linda Irwin-Devitis

Stigma stories in the media: four discourses about teen mothers, welfare, and poverty / Deirdre M. Kelly

What does it mean to be in a gang? / Haroon Kharem

Would you like values with that? Chick-fil-A and character education / Deron Boyles

Implied adolescents and implied teachers: a generation gap for new times / Cynthia Lewis & Margaret Finders

Adolescent engagement, connectedness and dropping out of school / John Smyth

Overcoming negative school experiences of African-American adolescents: what school counselors can do to eradicate ethnocentrism / Dana Griffin & Julia Bryan

Why an undemocratic capitalism has brought public education to its knees / Richard A. Gibboney

Deferred but determined: a middle school manifesto / John H. Lounsbury

"The ideal high school for future adolescents: a neo-Deweyan perspective" / Douglas J. Simpson & Margaret Price

Beyond "written off": surviving and thriving through adolescent literacy / Dan Bauer, Linda Golson Bradley, & Lindell Dillon

Urban youth engaging poetry and creating learning communities / Korina M. Jocson

Teaching history to adolescents / John A. Beineke

Critical civic literacy in schools: adolescents seeking to understand and improve the(ir) world / Kenneth Teitelbaum

Teaching students how to think critically: the Confederate flag controversy in the high school social studies curriculum / Susan L. Schramm-Pate & Richard Lussier

Urban success: a multidimensional mathematics approach with equitable outcomes / Jo Boaler

Making high school science instruction effective / Thomas R. Koballa, Jr. & Abdulkadir Demir

Teaching about global warming in truck country / Jana Dean

"If you're good at nothin', what are ya good for?" Disability and identity / Melissa M. Jones

How important is technology in urban education? / Vanessa Domine

The new vocationalism: what it is, what it could be / W. Norton Grubb

Character education for adolescents: pedagogy of control / Tianlong Yu

An empowering, transformative approach to service / Jeff Claus & Curtis Ogden

The early college concept: building hope for students, parents, professionals, and community / Camille Daniel-Tyson & Lianna Nix

How can caring help? A personalized cross-generational examination of violent adolescent experiences in schools / Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon

"I'm a person; I'm not dirt!": the impact of power relationships on perceptions of caring in a secondary classroom / Marcia Peck

Talks with teenagers and teachers / Nel Noddings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781433105043

1433105047

9781433105050

1433105055

OCLC:

551718691

Publisher Number:

99939076459