Contributor
DeVitis, Joseph L.
Imprint:New York : Peter Lang, c2010.
Descriptionxiii, 506 p. ; 26 cm.
Note:Theoretical overview: adolescent culture and the culture of refusal / Brett Elizabeth Blake -- Who is included in the urban family? / Katia Goldfarb -- "Who you think I am is not necessarily who I think I am": the multiple positionalities of urban student identities / Rebecca A. Goldstein -- Tween social and biological reproduction: early puberty in girls / Elizabeth Seaton -- The body of evidence: dangerous intersections between development and culture in the lives of adolescent girls / Mary K. Bentley -- Urban African American female students and educational resiliency / Venus Evans-Winters -- Making a way out of no way: black male students at City High School / Garrett Albert Duncan, Ryonnel Jackson -- Between a danger zone and a safe space: LGBTQ youth and the challenge of democratic education / Dennis Carlson -- What about adolescent curiosity and risk-taking? / Thomas G. Reio, Jr. -- Understanding adolescent suicide: a psychological interpretation of developmental and contextual factors / Pedro R. Portes, Daya S. Sandhu, Robert Longwell-Grice -- Framing adolescents, their schools and culture: contested worldviews / Linda Irwin-DeVitis -- Stigma stories in the media: four discourses about teen mothers, welfare, and poverty / Deirdre M. Kelly -- What does it mean to be in a gang? / Haroon Kharem -- Would you like values with that?: Chick-Fil-A and character education / Deron Boyles -- Implied adolescents and implied teachers: a generation gap for new times / Cynthia Lewis, Margaret Finders -- Adolescent engagement, connectedness and dropping out of school / John Smyth -- Overcoming negative school experiences of African-American adolescents: what school counselors can do to eradicate ethnocentrism / Dana Griffin, Julia Bryan -- Why an undemocratic capitalism has brought public education to its knees / Richard A. Gibboney -- Deferred but determined: a middle school manifesto / John H. Lounsbury -- The ideal high school for future adolescents: a neo-Deweyan perspective / Douglas J. Simpson, Margaret Price.
Note:Beyond "written off": surviving and thriving through adolescent literacy / Dan Bauer, Linda Golson Bradley, Lindell Dillon -- Urban youth engaging poetry and creating learning communities / Korina M. Jocson -- Teaching history to adolescents / John A. Beineke -- Critical civic literacy in schools: adolescents seeking to understand and improve the(ir) world / Kenneth Teitelbaum -- Teaching students how to think critically: the Confederate flag controversy in the high school social studies curriculum / Susan L. Schramm-Pate, Richard Lussier -- Urban success: a multidimensional mathematics approach with equitable outcomes / Jo Boaler -- Making high school science instruction effective / Thomas R. Koballa, Jr., Abdulkadir Demir -- Teaching about global warming in truck country / Jana Dean -- "If you're good at nothin', what are ya good for?": disability and identity / Melissa M. Jones -- How important is technology in urban education? / Vanessa Domine -- The new vocationalism: what it is, what it could be / W. Norton Grubb -- Character education for adolescents: pedagogy of control / Tianlong Yu -- An empowering, transformative approach to service / Jeff Claus, Curtis Ogden -- The early college concept: building hope for students, parents, professionals, and community / Camille Daniel-Tyson, Lianna Nix -- How can caring help?: a personalized cross-generational examination of violent adolescent experiences in schools / Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon -- "I'm a person; i'm not dirt!": the impact of power relationships on perceptions of caring in a secondary classroom / Marcia Peck -- Talks with teenagers and teachers / Nel Noddings.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
