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Global Views of Adolescence

Exploring Relationship-Building, Curriculum Innovation, and School Reform Through Educator Narratives

  • Reflects an intersection between adolescent psychology and education in terms of social and emotional learning
  • Offers a contextualized portrait of thirteen countries’ educational system
  • Ranges from the impact of social media to the importance of social-emotional learning

Part of the book series: Global Perspectives on Adolescence and Education (GLAE, volume 1)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction: Global Visions of Adolescence

    • Devin G. Thornburg
    Pages 1-6
  3. Redesigning Curriculum

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
    2. Diverse Education Within the Arts

      • Miguel Rosa Castejón, David Muñóz Villaraviz, Fernanda Durán Romero
      Pages 101-112
    3. Malagasy Teenager’s Current Social and Emotional Life (Case of Antananarivo Region)

      • Hantanirina Rasamimanana, Tolotra Randrianirina, Lovatiana Ramanantsoa, Tia Rabemanantsoa, Mihaja Raelison, Saotra Rakotonomenjanahary et al.
      Pages 129-136
  4. Re-Envisioning Schools

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
    2. Rethinking the Adolescent Mind in U.S. Schools

      • Seth Adam Walker, Devin G. Thornburg
      Pages 139-149
    3. Calling Children Back to School

      • Rukhsana Ayyub
      Pages 167-183
    4. Conclusion: Global Visions of Adolescence

      • Devin G. Thornburg
      Pages 197-202

About this book

This book addresses what teachers and school leaders from a dozen countries see as the social and emotional strengths, interests and needs of adolescents in their schools and communities; how they innovate their programs and practices to respond to their students’ lives. The book also describes how educators themselves benefit from social and emotional supports to be responsive. Rather than assume that there are universal themes in adolescents’ lives, the book is intended to illuminate the local, contextual, and powerful insights of educators daily working with students. In many intentional respects, each serves as an action research study with an effort to better the process and outcomes of their students’ growth and learning as well as to enrich the classroom. 

The chapters are organized by themes, ranging from challenges adolescents face in that particular locale to curriculum work that is project-based, transdisciplinary, and tied to the communities where the adolescents live. 

‘The voices of adolescents, particularly with regard to their social and emotional development have been neglected in the literature. Thus, we know very little about their feelings and personal experiences as they progress through their schooling. A book such as this will be beneficial in terms of providing a contribution to this field, thereby increasing our understanding of the issues faced by adolescents across countries and cultures.’ 

Peggy L. Anderson, Ph.D., Metropolitan State University of Denver

‘The outstanding strength of this book is quite precisely its international scope: here is an anthology that lives up to the claims made by its title. Anyone interested in either adolescent development or Social and Emotional Learning in real world as opposed to abstract settings will appreciate the breadth of experience described.’

Mokhtar El Maouhal, Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Langues et la Communication

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Ruth S. Ammon School of Education, Adelphi University, Garden City, USA

    Devin G. Thornburg

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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