Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century: Challenges Facing Europe and the United States
Early adolescence, a critically important developmental phase in the lives of young people, has been neglected in terms of its potential to prevent educational and health problems. Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century: Challenges Facing Europe and the United States attempts to address this neglect by focusing on cross-national perspectives and linking fundamental research on adolescent development to the challenges of preparing young people for adult life. This volume's contributors describe the theory, design, and implementation of innovative comprehensive education and health approaches. The contributors give serious consideration to increasing the positive influence of education in promoting literacy for a high-technology economy, healthy lifestyles, and responsible citizenship. Co-editor David Hamburg was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on September 9, 1996.
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Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century: Challenges Facing Europe and the United States
Early adolescence, a critically important developmental phase in the lives of young people, has been neglected in terms of its potential to prevent educational and health problems. Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century: Challenges Facing Europe and the United States attempts to address this neglect by focusing on cross-national perspectives and linking fundamental research on adolescent development to the challenges of preparing young people for adult life. This volume's contributors describe the theory, design, and implementation of innovative comprehensive education and health approaches. The contributors give serious consideration to increasing the positive influence of education in promoting literacy for a high-technology economy, healthy lifestyles, and responsible citizenship. Co-editor David Hamburg was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on September 9, 1996.
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Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century: Challenges Facing Europe and the United States

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Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century: Challenges Facing Europe and the United States

Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century: Challenges Facing Europe and the United States

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Early adolescence, a critically important developmental phase in the lives of young people, has been neglected in terms of its potential to prevent educational and health problems. Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century: Challenges Facing Europe and the United States attempts to address this neglect by focusing on cross-national perspectives and linking fundamental research on adolescent development to the challenges of preparing young people for adult life. This volume's contributors describe the theory, design, and implementation of innovative comprehensive education and health approaches. The contributors give serious consideration to increasing the positive influence of education in promoting literacy for a high-technology economy, healthy lifestyles, and responsible citizenship. Co-editor David Hamburg was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on September 9, 1996.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521570657
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 03/28/1997
Series: The Jacobs Foundation Series on Adolescence
Pages: 268
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Takanishi, Ruby (Foundation for Child Development); Hamburg, David A. (Carnegie Corporation of New York)

The contributors are from universities and research institutes in the U.S., Germany, France, and Belgium. Institutions prominently represented include Univ of Illinois-Urbana, Stanford, and Univ of Bielefeld.

Table of Contents

1. Meeting the essential requirements David A. Hamburg; 2. Adapting educational systems Anthony W. Jackson; 3. Impact of school reform Robert Felner, Anthony Jackson Deborah Kasak, Peter Mulhall, Stephen Brand and Nancy Flowers; 4. Schooling for the middle years Donald Hirsch; 5. Role of the school in health promotion Klaus Hurrelmann and Andreas Klocke; 6. Education for healthy futures Beatrix A. Hamburg; 7. HUMBIO: Stanford University H. Craig Heller and Mary L. Kiely; 8. Education for living Eugeen Roosens; 9. Economics of education and training Henri Nadel; 10. School-to-work processes in the US Ray Marshall; 11. Finding common ground Ruby Takanishi.
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