PPN: | 418726647 |
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Erschienen: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011 |
Vertrieb: | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press |
Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 267 pages) |
Anmerkung: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
ISBN: | 978-0-511-79326-4 ; 978-1-107-00502-0 ; 978-0-521-18203-4 |
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Abstract: | In American high schools, teenagers must navigate complex youth cultures that often prize being 'real' while punishing difference. Adults may view such social turbulence as a timeless, ultimately harmless rite of passage, but changes in American society are intensifying this rite and allowing its effects to cascade into adulthood. Integrating national statistics with interviews and observations from a single school, this book explores this phenomenon. It makes the case that recent macro-level trends, such as economic restructuring and technological change, mean that the social dynamics of high school can disrupt educational trajectories after high school; it looks at teenagers who do not fit in socially at school - including many who are obese or gay - to illustrate this phenomenon; and it crafts recommendations for parents, teachers and policy-makers about how to protect teenagers in trouble. The result is a story of adolescence that hits home with anyone who remembers high school. |
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