Adolescent Education

Contents: Brett Elizabeth Blake: Theoretical Overview: Adolescent Culture and the Culture of Refusal - Katia Goldfarb: Who Is Included in the Urban Family? - Rebecca A. Goldstein: "Who You Think I Am Is Not Necessarily Who I Think I Am": The Multiple Positionalities of Urban Student Identities - Elizabeth Seaton: Tween Social and Biological Reproduction: Early Puberty in Girls - Mary K. Bentley: The Body of Evidence: Dangerous Intersections between Development and Culture in the Lives of Adolescent Girls - Venus Evans-Winters: Urban African American Female Students and Educational Resiliency - Garrett Albert Duncan/Ryonnel Jackson: Making a Way Out of No Way: Black Male Students at City High School - Dennis Carlson: Between a Danger Zone and a Safe Space: LGBTQ Youth and the Challenge of Democratic Education - Thomas G. Reio, Jr.: What About Adolescent Curiosity and Risk Taking? - Pedro R. Portes/Daya S. Sandhu/Robert Longwell-Grice: Understanding Adolescent Suicide: A Psychological Interpretation of Developmental and Contextual Factors - Linda Irwin-DeVitis: Framing Adolescents, Their Schools and Culture: Contested Worldviews - Deirdre M. Kelly: Stigma Stories in the Media: Four Discourses about Teen Mothers, Welfare, and Poverty - Haroon Kharem: What Does It Mean to Be in a Gang? - Deron Boyles: Would You Like Values with That? Chick-fil-A and Character Education - Cynthia Lewis/Margaret Finders: Implied Adolescents and Implied Teachers: A Generation Gap for New Times - John Smyth: Adolescent Engagement, Connectedness and Dropping Out of School - Dana Griffin/Julia Bryan: Overcoming Negative School Experiences of African-American Adolescents: What School Counselors Can Do to Eradicate Ethnocentrism - Richard A. Gibboney: Why An Undemocratic Capitalism Has Brought Public Education to Its Knees - John H. Lounsbury: Deferred but Determined: A Middle School Manifesto - Douglas J. Simpson/Margaret Price: "The Ideal High School for Future Adolescents: A Neo-Deweyan

Joseph L. DeVitis is Professor of Foundations of Education at Georgia College & State University. He is a past president of the American Educational Studies Association, the Council of Learned Societies in Education, and the Society of Professors of Education. Recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he is a widely published scholar and public intellectual in social foundations of education and educational policy studies.


Linda Irwin-DeVitis is Dean and Professor of Literacy at the John H. Lounsbury College of Education, Georgia College & State University. She has extensive teaching experience in New Orleans and Jacksonville area middle and high schools and in a literacy program in the Mississippi Delta. Her numerous publications are in the areas of literacy education, adolescent literacy, and teacher education.

"«Adolescent Education: A Reader», a stimulating collection of carefully selected essays, provides a cross-disciplinary approach to understanding today's adolescents. The authors, leading scholars as well as practitioners, confront stereotypes of teenagers and reframe the way we think about adolescents and adolescence. The contributors offer hopeful visions for respectful, nurturing, and effective schools where youth are challenged to learn and to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially. A must-read for all educators." Kathleen deMarrais, Professor, University of Georgia