The Search for Sustainable Girls

Autor/in	Pabst, Anne
Titel	The Search for Sustainable Girls
Quelle	In: Journal of College Admission, (2010) 209, S.8-13 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0734-6670
Schlagwörter	Daughters; College Admission; Females; High School Students; Single Sex Schools; Higher Education; Selective Admission; School Counselors; School Counseling; Academic Aspiration; College Choice; College Bound Students; Admissions Counseling; College Applicants; Academic Achievement; Minnesota + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Daughter; Tochter; Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; Zulassung; Weibliches Geschlecht; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Single-sex schools; Single-sex classes; Single sex classes; Getrenntgeschlechtliche Erziehung; Schule; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsselektion; School counselor; Beratungslehrer; Pädagogischer Berater; School counselling; Pädagogische Beratung; Studienortwahl; College applications; Studienbewerber; Schulleistung
Abstract	The girls of girls' schools, the author believes, are a kind of Platonic Form of American girl, an ideal to which most of the rest of society, of the country's meritocratic system, aspires for their daughters, a reflection of one's deepest values. She believes girls all over the country, in all high schools, want The Dream. They want to achieve and succeed in major ways unheard of in the past. What the author finds worrisome about young women is that in the quest to develop talents and aspirations, they have carved for themselves a frightening new territory where there is no concept of enough. The chance to become anything has become an impulse to become everything. When counselors get together, especially those from girls' schools, they concur that their girls seem to have a mechanism that leaves them without sufficient boundaries. Girls just keep adding... and adding... expectations, creating an endless list of chores and goals. In this article, the author presents some of the symptoms she sees of girls at risk, threatened by unsustainable dreams, including hyper-selective college admission at the climax, symptoms of nearly impossible day-to-day existences. A wilderness of girl-children losing pieces of themselves each year to their own overdevelopment. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	National Association for College Admission Counseling. 1631 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA 22314-2818. Tel: 800-822-6285; Tel: 703-836-2222; Fax: 703-836-8015; e-mail: info@nacac.com; Web site: http://www.nacacnet.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10