TY - BOOK AU - LeTendre, Gerald K. AU - ED - ED - ED - ED - TI - : growing up in U.S. and Japanese middle schools SN - 0300084382;9780300084382 SN - 2 PY - 2000///];©200046 CY - New Haven, CT PB - Yale University Press KW - KW - 2 KW - 0 KW - 6 KW - 20 KW - Conduct of life;Conduct of life;Conduct of life;Conduct of life KW - Adolescence;Adolescence;Middle school students;Middle school students;Adolescent psychology;Adolescence;Adolescence;Middle school students;Middle school students;Adolescent psychology KW - United States;Japan;United States;Japan;United States;Japan;United States;Japan KW - Case studies.;Case studies.;Case studies.;Case studies.;Cross-cultural studies.;Case studies.;Case studies.;Case studies.;Case studies.;Cross-cultural studies KW - Case studies.;Cross-cultural studies KW - fast;fast N1 - 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; 5 N2 - 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 ER -