Routledge library editions: sociology of education ; volume 35
Contents
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Contents; Dedication; General Editor's Preface; Introduction: Education and Youth; Adolescence and Schooling; Peers, Subcultures, and Schools; The Challenge of Learning to Care; Capitalizing on Youth: Group Work in Education; Young People and Values: The Case of The Youth Service; Uncharted Youth: Adolescence and the Secondary School Curriculum; Tripartism Revisited: Young People, Education, and Work in the 1980s; Comprehensive Schooling and Procrustes; Order in an Age of Rebellion; The Elusiveness of Youth Policy
Summary
First published in 1987, this book examines the nature of the problems involved with the treatment of youth. It explores the psychology of adolescence and its bearing on schooling; the effects of peer groups and youth culture; the implications for curriculum and method; the need to get relevance and excitement into schools; the importance of you
