A Portrait of Young Adolescents in the 1980's.

Autor/in	Lefstein, Leah
Institution	North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill. Center for Early Adolescence.
Titel	A Portrait of Young Adolescents in the 1980's.
Quelle	(1986), (28 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Cognitive Development; Emotional Development; High Risk Persons; Human Resources; Individual Development; Individual Needs; Physical Development; Poverty; Research Needs; Self Esteem; Social Development; Social Problems; Talent + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Kognitive Entwicklung; Gefühlsbildung; Humankapital; Individuelle Entwicklung; Körperliche Entwicklung; Armut; Forschungsbedarf; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Soziale Entwicklung; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Begabung; Hochbegabung
Abstract	Research findings are reported which depict characteristics and conditions of young adolescents in the 1980s. Discussion begins with an overview of what is known about the physical, socioemotional, and cognitive growth of young adolescents. It is argued that: (1) adults perpetuate many myths about teenagers; (2) adolescence is no more pathological a time than middle or old age; (3) the capacities and new talents of young adolescents are not used in their communities; (4) young teenagers are not overly influenced by peers in their development of long-term values; and (5) adults must recognize that a difference exists between the emergence of formal operational thinking in youth and the ability of the young adolescent to apply such thinking skills in every situation. While the young need adults and want their support, the myth that youths are to be feared and are not to be trusted continues. Concluding remarks focus on problems of adolescents, including mortality among infants born to teen mothers, teenage motherhood and poverty and school dropout rates, negative attitudes of dropouts toward school and their successes in special programs outside their regular classrooms, single parent working mothers, extended day school programs, adolescents' use of leisure time, substance abuse, the abuse of adolescents, and the increasing numbers of the young born and raised in poverty. (RH)
Anmerkungen	Center for Early Adolescence, 223 Carr Mill Mall, Carrboro, NC 27510 ($2.50).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC