Adolescent Years: Social Influences And Educational Challenges; Editor: Borman, Kathryn; Editor: Schneider, Barbara; Hardback; Book

Editor: Borman, Kathryn; Editor: Schneider, Barbara
Series#:97; Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education; Hardback; Book
254 pages
Published: July 1998
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226066363

This volume considers adolescence in broad terms, as a dynamic of social construction. The contributors examine the changes in various social contexts in which teenagers live -- family, school, community institutions, peer groups, workplace -- and show how these factors can significantly affect the progress of social and cognitive developmental tasks.Considers adolescence in broad terms, as a dynamic of social construction. This volume examines the changes in various social contexts in which teenagers live, and shows how these factors can significantly alter the progress of social and cognitive developmental tasks.