Adolescent Education

A Reader

By: Joseph L. DeVitis (Editor), Linda Irwin-DeVitis (Editor)

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Hardcover | 9 June 2010 | Edition Number 2

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522 Pages

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25.4 x 18.42 x 3.81

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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 social ills. Similar unfair charges have been lodged against America's teachers and schools throughout our history. This book offers public counterpoints to those simplistic blaming-the-victim arguments. Instead, it traverses a more nuanced and realistic path toward uncovering the developmental, socio-cultural realities faced by today's teenagers. It also provides rich pedagogical strategies, and educational wisdom for allowing adolescents to grow as worthy human beings. This important and timely book will appeal to preservice teachers, teacher educators, education and social service professionals, policymakers, and all those interested in bettering the lives of adolescents in this uncertain world.

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"'Adolescent Education: A Reader', a stimulating collection of carefully selected essays, provides a cross-disciplinary approach to understanding today's adolescents. The authors, leading scholars as well as practitioners, confront stereotypes of teenagers and reframe the way we think about adolescents and adolescence. The contributors offer hopeful visions for respectful, nurturing, and effective schools where youth are challenged to learn and to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially. A must-read for all educators." (Kathleen deMarrais, Professor, University of Georgia)

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