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xv, 240 pages : 24 cm, \"The contributors to this book see adolescence in broad terms - as a \"dynamic social construction.\" As society changes, it becomes necessary to rethink what it means to be an adolescent in a rapidly changing world and to look with great care for explanations of teenage behavior, which is often perplexing to adults and teenagers themselves.\" \"A recurrent theme in this volume is that, no matter how adolescence is defined, the establishment of identity and the search for autonomy remain central developmental tasks of the adolescent years. Changes in the various social contexts in which teenagers live - family, school, community institutions, peer groups, workplace - can significantly affect the progress they make with these and other social and cognitive developmental tasks. And success with those tasks is critical to ensure a smooth transition into adulthood.\"--Jacket, Includes bibliographical references and indexes, Section one: setting the context. Stress and resilience in adolescence : an evolutionary perspective / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Jennifer Sschmidt -- Identity formation in adolescence / Dena Phillips Swanson, Margaret Beale Spencer, and Ann

Author

Borman, Kathryn M; Schneider, Barbara L; National Society for the Study of Education

Publisher

Chicago : NSSE : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226066363

Subjects

Education

Updated

2026-03-24