Learning to be adolescent : growing up in U.S. and Japanese middle schools / Gerald K. LeTendre ; foreword by Thomas P. Rohlen. 6
By: LeTendre, Gerald K. 4 0 16 [, ] | [, ] |
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Language: Unknown language code Summary language: Unknown language code Original language: Unknown language code Series: ; New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2000];©200046Edition: Description: 25 cm. xxii, 234 pages : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0300084382;9780300084382ISSN: 2Other title: 6 []Uniform titles: | | Subject(s): -- 2 -- 0 -- -- | -- 2 -- 0 -- 6 -- | 2 0 -- | -- -- 20 -- | | -- -- Conduct of life;Conduct of life;Conduct of life;Conduct of life Adolescence;Adolescence;Middle school students;Middle school students;Adolescent psychology;Adolescence;Adolescence;Middle school students;Middle school students;Adolescent psychology -- United States;Japan;United States;Japan;United States;Japan;United States;Japan -- 20 -- Case studies.;Case studies.;Case studies.;Case studies.;Cross-cultural studies.;Case studies.;Case studies.;Case studies.;Case studies.;Cross-cultural studies | -- -- -- 20 -- --Genre/Form: Case studies.;Cross-cultural studies. -- -- Additional physical formats: DDC classification: | 373.18 L568l 2000 LOC classification: | LB1135 | .L47 20002Other classification:| Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-227) and index.
What is adolescence? -- Oak Grove and Kotani -- The common problem of responsibility -- Puberty and sexuality--hormones, energy, and rebellion -- Toward maturity: self-control and academic goals -- Managing crises -- The disruptive adolescent, defiance, delinquency and the family -- Creativity and self-expression -- How adolescence gets institutionalized -- Adolescence, self, and life course.
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LeTendre studies the educational institutionalization of reaction to the adolescent's emergent will. He examines how different cultural attitudes in the United States and Japan influence educators' opinions of will and the knowledge of self exhibited by middle-school aged children.
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